(Nanowerk News) Imagine standing by a lake and throwing a stone into the water. Waves spread out in circular patterns and can reflect at obstacles and boundaries. Researchers at the University of ...

The optical spectrum of a single quantum dot is strongly affected by coherent tunnelling to a nearby sea of electrons. A semiconductor quantum dot is a crystal so small that it forces an optically ...

The electron, against predictions, appears to be perfectly round, raising questions about one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. An electron's shape refers to that of the cloud of ...