{"id":244184,"date":"2026-09-18T02:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/close-up-images-show-defects-locking-electrons-into-stable-wigner-solids"},"modified":"2026-09-18T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:24:53","slug":"close-up-images-show-defects-locking-electrons-into-stable-wigner-solids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/close-up-images-show-defects-locking-electrons-into-stable-wigner-solids","title":{"rendered":"Close-up images show defects locking electrons into stable Wigner solids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/close-up-images-show-defects-locking-electrons-into-stable-wigner-solids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed an approach that enabled them to directly observe how electrons interact with defects in advanced semiconductor devices in unprecedented detail. The team\u2019s methodology included an innovative simulation tool that enabled accurate theoretical interpretations of its experimental observations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10654-w\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in <i>Nature<\/i>, focuses on cutting-edge ultrathin devices known as two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors that have unusual electron states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study yielded valuable insights into why electrons in 2D semiconductors behave the way they do,\u201d said Mike Crommie, a senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab\u2019s Materials Sciences Division and professor of physics at UC Berkeley, and one of the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed an approach that enabled them to directly observe how electrons interact with defects in advanced semiconductor devices in unprecedented detail. The team\u2019s methodology included an innovative simulation tool that enabled accurate theoretical interpretations of its experimental observations. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244184","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=244184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}