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Monday, August 7, 2023, 6:00 pm
Uncovering the Auger-Meitner effect's crucial role in electron energy loss
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Uncovering the Auger-Meitner effect's crucial role in electron energy loss
by James Badham, University of California - Santa Barbara
AUGUST 7, 2023
The Van De Walle research group uncovered the crucial role of the Auger-Meitner effect, a mechanism that allows an electron to lose energy by kicking another electron up to a higher-energy state.
More information: Fangzhou Zhao et al, Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner Recombination from First Principles, Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.056402
Journal information: Physical Review Letters
The trap-assisted Auger-Meitner effect allows for energy to be transferred to another electron. Photo credit: Fangzhou Zhao