This process is called the photoelectric effect. Scientists can learn a lot about the atom being irradiated by measuring the emitted electron and its kinetic energy. This is the main idea behind ...

The illustration shows the layers of semiconductor crystal stacked together. Electron orbitals within the layers are represented as sitting atop them. The double-lobed orbitals indicate the locations ...

Feb. 21, 2025 — Perovskite solar cells are highly efficient and low cost in production. However, they still lack stability over the decades under real weather conditions. An international ...

Feb. 20, 2025 — In a leap forward for quantum computing, physicists unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the ...

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China ...