{"id":216580,"date":"2025-06-25T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/coupled-electrons-and-phonons-may-flow-like-water-in-2d-semiconductors"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:10:18","slug":"coupled-electrons-and-phonons-may-flow-like-water-in-2d-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/coupled-electrons-and-phonons-may-flow-like-water-in-2d-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"Coupled electrons and phonons may flow like water in 2D semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coupled-electrons-and-phonons-may-flow-like-water-in-2d-semiconductors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may actually be beneficial in 2D semiconductors, according to new findings by UC Santa Barbara researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.226301\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Electron-phonon interactions\u2014collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material\u2014are considered the primary cause of electrons slowing down as they travel through semiconductor material. But according to UCSB mechanical engineers Bolin Liao and Yujie Quan, when electrons and phonons are considered as a single system, these interactions in atomically thin material prove to actually conserve total <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/momentum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">momentum<\/a> and energy, and could have important implications for 2D semiconductor design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in sharp contrast to three-dimensional systems where you have a lot of momentum loss processes,\u201d said Liao, who specializes in thermal and energy science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A condition long considered to be unfavorable to electrical conduction in semiconductor materials may actually be beneficial in 2D semiconductors, according to new findings by UC Santa Barbara researchers published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Electron-phonon interactions\u2014collisions between charge-carrying electrons and heat-carrying vibrations in the atomic lattice of the material\u2014are considered the primary cause [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216580","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=216580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}