{"id":219423,"date":"2025-08-05T04:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ultrathin-metallic-films-show-tunable-directional-charge-flow-using-light-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:15:55","slug":"ultrathin-metallic-films-show-tunable-directional-charge-flow-using-light-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ultrathin-metallic-films-show-tunable-directional-charge-flow-using-light-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin metallic films show tunable, directional charge flow using light at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-metallic-films-show-tunable-directional-charge-flow-using-light-at-room-temperature3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a major step toward next-generation electronics, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a way to manipulate the direction of charge flow in ultrathin metallic films at room temperature using light. This discovery opens the door to more energy-efficient optical sensors, detectors, and quantum information devices.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adw7125\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>The team showed that ultra-thin layers of ruthenium dioxide (RuO<sub>2<\/sub>), grown on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/titanium+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">titanium dioxide<\/a> (TiO<sub>2<\/sub>), can be made to behave differently depending on direction\u2014both in how they respond to light and how electricity moves through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step toward next-generation electronics, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a way to manipulate the direction of charge flow in ultrathin metallic films at room temperature using light. This discovery opens the door to more energy-efficient optical sensors, detectors, and quantum information devices. The research is published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1509,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-entertainment","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219423","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=219423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}