{"id":233962,"date":"2026-03-24T03:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/first-quantum-oscillations-observed-in-gallium-nitride-holes"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:30:59","slug":"first-quantum-oscillations-observed-in-gallium-nitride-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/first-quantum-oscillations-observed-in-gallium-nitride-holes","title":{"rendered":"First quantum oscillations observed in gallium nitride holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-quantum-oscillations-observed-in-gallium-nitride-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gallium nitride, a semiconductor that can operate at high voltages, temperatures, and frequencies, has enabled technologies from LED lighting to high-power electronics. Now Cornell researchers have observed a quantum property of the material for the first time, an advance that could expand its technological reach.<\/p>\n<p>Much of gallium nitride\u2019s value as a semiconductor lies in how quickly negatively charged electrons move through the material. But the material could become even more useful if scientists better understood its positively charged \u201choles,\u201d which behave like mobile pockets of missing electrons but have been difficult to study.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how to control the flow of the holes\u2014as engineers have achieved in silicon semiconductors\u2014would allow gallium nitride to reach its full potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallium nitride, a semiconductor that can operate at high voltages, temperatures, and frequencies, has enabled technologies from LED lighting to high-power electronics. Now Cornell researchers have observed a quantum property of the material for the first time, an advance that could expand its technological reach. Much of gallium nitride\u2019s value as a semiconductor lies 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":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233962","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=233962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}