electron
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“Over even short distances, transmitting data with photons is three times as efficient as electrons,” says Wendell Weeks, Corning’s chief executive since 2005, who came from the fiber-optic division.
Because electrons carry a negative charge and holes act as positive charges, the two can bind together to form excitons.
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To observe how the ER changes over time, the research team used new genetic tools along with advanced light and electron microscopy.
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The project is designed to look for an extremely rare event in which muonium, a short lived system made of a positive muon bound to an electron, spontaneously transforms into antimuonium, its antimatter counterpart.
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Over the past century, research into atoms, electrons, and photons led to the invention of transistors and the foundation of today's computers.
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