From solar panels on our roofs to the new OLED TV screens, many everyday electronic devices simply wouldn't work without the interaction between light and the materials that make up semiconductors. A ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” of electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron (SUEM) ...

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” ...

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” ...

Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have visualized photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials within a solar cell. In a solar ...

This charge trapping in Si/Ge heterojunctions can be understood by semiconductor theory but it was still striking to directly observe it experimentally, noted Liao. "We didn't expect to be able to ...

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The ultrafast scanning electron microscope in the Bolin Liao lab. Credit: Matt Perko UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever "movie" of electric charges traveling across the ...