Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding ...

A team of researchers from TU Wien has shed new light on the behavior of electrons fleeing a solid material. Their research solves a long-standing mystery in condensed matter physics. When a material ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

Secondary electron emission (SEE) is a fundamental physical process whereby incident electrons or photons induce the ejection of electrons from a material’s surface. This phenomenon has significant ...

To simplify the electron emission mechanism involved in microwave electron guns, a team of researchers has created and demonstrated a field-emission plug-and-play solution based on ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters Asteroid buster: AIM will try to ...

Ionisation processes and the resultant electron emission in molecular collisions constitute a cornerstone of modern atomic and molecular physics. These phenomena encompass a variety of interactions – ...

When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs a trembling motion at the frequency of the light field.

Researchers have found a way to create much stronger interactions between photons and electrons, in the process producing a hundredfold increase in the emission of light from a phenomenon called Smith ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Electrons are still almost perfectly round, a new measurement shows. A more squished shape could hint at the presence of never-before-seen subatomic particles, so the result stymies the search for new ...

The way electrons interact with photons of light is a key part of many modern technologies, from lasers to solar panels to LEDs. But the interaction is inherently a weak one because of a major ...