{"id":241322,"date":"2026-07-22T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-color-lasers-aim-electron-currents-through-semiconductor-with-no-electric-field"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:40:12","slug":"two-color-lasers-aim-electron-currents-through-semiconductor-with-no-electric-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/two-color-lasers-aim-electron-currents-through-semiconductor-with-no-electric-field","title":{"rendered":"Two-color lasers aim electron currents through semiconductor with no electric field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-color-lasers-aim-electron-currents-through-semiconductor-with-no-electric-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a device that enables them to control the flow of electrons through a semiconductor using only laser light\u2014no electrical power source required. The device was built to explore fundamental physics and realize a previously unobserved behavior, but it could also open doors for new applications in areas that bridge optics and electronics, including sensing, imaging and telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/3v91-5pzf\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon could help improve how signals are sent through and between devices, as well as create new opportunities to store more information in those signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a device that enables them to control the flow of electrons through a semiconductor using only laser light\u2014no electrical power source required. The device was built to explore fundamental physics and realize a previously unobserved behavior, but it could also open doors for new applications in areas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241322","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=241322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}