Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

Credit: Gregory M. Stewart/SLAC

Artistic depiction of electron transfer driven by an ultrashort laser pulse, across an interface between two atomically-thin materials. This transfer is facilitated by an interlayer 'bridge' state that electrons are able to access due to lattice vibrations in both materials.

« Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab’s Archana Raja at the Molecular Foundry. Raja’s group at the Molecular Foundry perfected the art of fabricating devices from two-dimensional semiconductors in order to explore the unusual behavior of electrons and heat in these exotic materials.

« Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

Credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

From left, Stanford University’s Aaron Lindenberg, Aditya Sood, and Felipe Jornada are among the scientists who discovered a highly efficient mechanism for energy transfer between two-dimensional materials.

« Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

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« Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors

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