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02OCT 2017
Research
The fastest light-driven current source
Controlling electronic current is essential to modern electronics, as data and signals are transferred by streams of electrons which are controlled at high speed. Demands on transmission speeds are also increasing as technology develops. Scientists from the Chair of Laser Physics and the Chair of Applied Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in switching […]Controlling electronic current is essential to modern electronics, as data and signals are transferred by streams of electrons which are controlled at high speed. Demands on transmission speeds are also increasing as technology develops. Scientists from the Chair of Laser Physics and the Chair of Applied Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in switching […]
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02OCT 2017
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Highlights on international stage
At the international conference for silicon carbide and related materials (ICSCRM 2017) in Washington D.C., our PhD students Maximilian Rühl and Martin Hauck impressed scientists from academia and industry from all over the world with their research results. Maximilian Rühl got an invited talk for his contribution by the technical program committee. During his 30 […]
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06SEP 2017
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A cousin of quantum tunnelling: defect supported conduction
A fundamental and counter-intuitive phenomenon of quantum mechanics is the tunnelling of electrons through barriers that, classically, the electron should not penetrate. This effect is efficient only on the nanoscale, due to the exponential decay of the wave function in the barrier. It was therefore surprising when a decade ago it was seen that in […]
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