{"id":98524,"date":"2019-11-14T00:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/excitons-will-shape-the-future-of-electronic-devices"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:59:31","slug":"excitons-will-shape-the-future-of-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/excitons-will-shape-the-future-of-electronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Excitons will shape the future of electronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/excitons-will-shape-the-future-of-electronic-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excitons are quasiparticles made from the excited state of electrons and\u2014according to research being carried out EPFL\u2014have the potential to boost the energy efficiency of our everyday devices.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a whole new way of thinking about electronics. Excitons\u2014or quasiparticles formed when electrons absorb light\u2014stand to revolutionize the building blocks of circuits. Scientists at EPFL have been studying their extraordinary properties in order to design more energy-efficient electronic systems, and have now found a way to better control excitons moving in semiconductors. Their findings appear today in Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Quasiparticles are temporary phenomena resulting from the interaction between two particles within solid matter. Excitons are created when an electron absorbs a photon and moves into a higher energy state, leaving behind a hole in its previous energy state (called a \u201cvalence band\u201d in band theory). The electron and electron hole are bound together through attractive forces, and the two together form what is called an exciton. Once the electron falls back into the hole, it emits a photon and the exciton ceases to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitons are quasiparticles made from the excited state of electrons and\u2014according to research being carried out EPFL\u2014have the potential to boost the energy efficiency of our everyday devices. It\u2019s a whole new way of thinking about electronics. Excitons\u2014or quasiparticles formed when electrons absorb light\u2014stand to revolutionize the building blocks of circuits. Scientists at EPFL have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98524","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=98524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}