{"id":197522,"date":"2024-10-12T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-nanotechnology-aids-in-electron-cooling-without-external-sources"},"modified":"2024-10-12T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T20:32:04","slug":"new-nanotechnology-aids-in-electron-cooling-without-external-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-nanotechnology-aids-in-electron-cooling-without-external-sources","title":{"rendered":"New Nanotechnology AIDS in Electron Cooling Without External Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nanotechnology-aids-in-electron-cooling-without-external-sources.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Using a nanoscale structure that consisted of a sequential array of a source electrode, a quantum well, a tunneling barrier, a quantum dot, another tunneling barrier, and a drain electrode, researchers were able to suppress electron excitation and cool electrons to &minus;228 \u00b0C (&minus;378 \u00b0F) without external means at room temperature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has discovered a way to cool electrons to &minus;228 \u00b0C without external means and at room temperature, an advancement that could enable electronic devices to function with very little energy.<\/p>\n<p>The process involves passing electrons through a quantum well to cool them and keep them from heating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a nanoscale structure that consisted of a sequential array of a source electrode, a quantum well, a tunneling barrier, a quantum dot, another tunneling barrier, and a drain electrode, researchers were able to suppress electron excitation and cool electrons to \u2212228 \u00b0C (\u2212378 \u00b0F) without external means at room temperature. A team of researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197522","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}