A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may actually be beneficial in 2D semiconductors.

"For a long time, we've treated electrons as independent particles, resembling atoms in a gas, making the model simpler ... to determine if the viscous electron flow observed in graphene could ...

A team of researchers has developed a theory to explain how hydrodynamic electron flow could occur in 3D materials and observed it for the first time using a new imaging technique. Electrons flow ...

Graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon arranged in a honeycomb pattern, is an especially pure electrical conductor, making it an ideal material to study electron flow with very low resistance.

A diagram showing how electrons flow in a standard metal (gold) on the left, and how they create electron whirlpools in a quantum material (tungsten ditelluride), right In this material ...

When the water encounters an obstacle – such as the river bank or a boat – the patterns change. The same should hold true for electron flow in a solid if the interactions between electrons are strong.

The electron gets its shape from the way that positive and negative charges are distributed inside the particle. The best theory for how particles behave, called the standard model of particle ...