{"id":93403,"date":"2019-07-10T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-finding-could-revolutionize-information-transmission"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:03:14","slug":"physicists-finding-could-revolutionize-information-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-finding-could-revolutionize-information-transmission","title":{"rendered":"Physicists\u2019 finding could revolutionize information transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-finding-could-revolutionize-information-transmission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Move aside, electrons; it\u2019s time to make way for the trion.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed, characterized, and controlled dark trions in a semiconductor\u2014ultraclean single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe<sub>2<\/sub>)\u2014a feat that could increase the capacity and alter the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information<\/a> transmission.<\/p>\n<p>In a semiconductor, such as WSe<sub>2<\/sub>, a trion is a quantum bound state of three charged particles. A negative trion contains two electrons and one hole; a positive trion contains two holes and one electron. A hole is the vacancy of an electron in a semiconductor, which behaves like a positively charged particle. Because a trion contains three interacting particles, it can carry much more information than a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+electron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single electron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move aside, electrons; it\u2019s time to make way for the trion. A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed, characterized, and controlled dark trions in a semiconductor\u2014ultraclean single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2)\u2014a feat that could increase the capacity and alter the form of information transmission. In a semiconductor, such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93403","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}