Research led by scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and ...

Quantum physicists are edging closer to a kind of controlled transmutation, not of lead into gold, but of one electronic reality into another. By steering exotic entities called excitons, researchers ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

A joint research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan and Stanford University in the U.S ...

Scientists have shown that it may be possible to transform materials simply by triggering internal quantum ripples rather ...

Researchers have improved organic solar cells with advanced molecules, unlocking higher efficiency, flexibility and the potential for widespread solar adoption.

(Nanowerk News) Future optical communication that's vastly more reliable and faster than what's commonly available today will require new technology. Modern communication is based on charge transfer, ...

Photovoltaics, the conversion of light to electricity, is a key technology for sustainable energy. Since the days of Max Planck and Albert Einstein, we know that light as well as electricity are ...

Coulombic attraction between a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole form excitons. The photoexcitation in semiconductors exhibits a spectrally narrow linewidth resulting in ...

After nearly a century of probing the nature of tiny, ephemeral objects called excitons, researchers finally managed to image the structure, hinting at the true location of an electron. The findings ...