Energy research group Ember said the global surge in clean energy more than met demand for electricity and led to the first ...

In solar cells, solar radiation boosts electrons to higher energy states, thereby releasing them from their atomic bonds as electricity begins to flow. Scientists have now developed a novel method to ...

In a discovery that bridges a century of physics, scientists have observed a phenomenon, once thought to be the domain of inorganic metal oxides, thriving within a glowing organic semiconductor ...

A river erodes its course. In an electric circuit, does the wiring get eroded by the current, atoms, electrons etc? — Bill "It's a reasonable analogy to think of an electric current acting like a flow ...

Bloom Energy, which makes the Bloom Box energy server, may have just found its business model mojo. The plan: Install Bloom Boxes at various locations and just charge customers for the power. Think of ...

We just got a bold new look at what happens when light interacts with electrons. When converting light into electricity, like in solar cells, much of the energy isn't converted into electricity. When ...

In the first demonstration of its kind, researchers have controlled the spin of electrons using a ballistic technique -- bouncing electrons through a microscopic channel of precisely constructed, ...

A better understanding of how electrons convert energy into photons could lead to designing more efficient solar cells or better phototherapies for cancer. Researchers looking into the process have ...

Scientists in Texas have found a method of cooling electrons to nearly absolute zero, and they’ve done it at room temperature. Their discovery could lead to electronic devices that need only about one ...

A research team in Kiel has demonstrated a previously unknown effect in graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms whose ...

Your 14-year-old kids have probably spent as much of their summer holidays on their phones or computers as they have at the beach or moaning about how bored they are. Yet when they learn about ...