{"id":109275,"date":"2020-06-29T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/team-develops-method-for-trapping-elusive-electrons"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:02:21","slug":"team-develops-method-for-trapping-elusive-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/team-develops-method-for-trapping-elusive-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Team develops method for trapping elusive electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-method-for-trapping-elusive-electrons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene\u2019s unique 2-D structure means that electrons travel through it differently than in most other materials. One consequence of this unique transport is that applying a voltage doesn\u2019t stop the electrons like it does in most other materials. This is a problem, because to make useful applications out of graphene and its unique electrons, such as quantum computers, it is necessary to be able to stop and control graphene electrons.<\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes (France), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal) and Aalto University has solved this long-standing problem. The team included experimental researchers Eva Cort\u00e9s del R\u00edo, Pierre Mallet, H\u00e9ctor Gonz\u00e1lez\u2010Herrero, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda G\u00f3mez\u2010Rodr\u00edguez, Jean\u2010Yves Veuillen and Iv\u00e1n Brihuega and theorists including Joaqu\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez-Rossier and Jose Lado, assistant professor in the department of Applied Physics at Aalto.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental team used atomic bricks to build walls capable of stopping the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> electrons. This was achieved by creating atomic walls that confined the electrons, leading to structures whose spectrum was then compared with theoretical predictions, demonstrating that electrons were confined. In particular, it was obtained that the engineered structures gave rise to nearly perfect confinement of electrons, as demonstrated from the emergence of sharp quantum well resonances with a remarkably long lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene\u2019s unique 2-D structure means that electrons travel through it differently than in most other materials. One consequence of this unique transport is that applying a voltage doesn\u2019t stop the electrons like it does in most other materials. This is a problem, because to make useful applications out of graphene and its unique electrons, such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}