{"id":203792,"date":"2025-01-15T04:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quasiparticle-research-unlocks-new-insights-into-tellurene-paving-the-way-for-next-gen-electronics"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:27:44","slug":"quasiparticle-research-unlocks-new-insights-into-tellurene-paving-the-way-for-next-gen-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/quasiparticle-research-unlocks-new-insights-into-tellurene-paving-the-way-for-next-gen-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Quasiparticle research unlocks new insights into tellurene, paving the way for next-gen electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quasiparticle-research-unlocks-new-insights-into-tellurene-paving-the-way-for-next-gen-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To describe how matter works at infinitesimal scales, researchers designate collective behaviors with single concepts, like calling a group of birds flying in sync a \u201cflock\u201d or \u201cmurmuration.\u201d Known as quasiparticles, the phenomena these concepts refer to could be the key to next-generation technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ads4763\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, a team of researchers led by Shengxi Huang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials science and nanoengineering at Rice, describe how one such type of quasiparticle\u2014polarons\u2014behaves in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that is made up of tiny chains of tellurium atoms and has properties useful in sensing, electronic, optical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTellurene exhibits dramatic changes in its electronic and optical properties when its thickness is reduced to a few nanometers compared to its bulk form,\u201d said Kunyan Zhang, a Rice doctoral alumna who is a first author on the study. \u201cSpecifically, these changes alter how electricity flows and how the material vibrates, which we traced back to the transformation of polarons as tellurene becomes thinner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To describe how matter works at infinitesimal scales, researchers designate collective behaviors with single concepts, like calling a group of birds flying in sync a \u201cflock\u201d or \u201cmurmuration.\u201d Known as quasiparticles, the phenomena these concepts refer to could be the key to next-generation technologies. In a recent study published in Science Advances, a team of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203792","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}