'Crowd Behavior' Seen in Semiconductor Electronics
BOULDER, Colo., July 11, 2007 -- Ultrafast lasers have revealed a subtle, previously unseen type of "collective electronic behavior" among semiconductors, research that may help improve the design of optoelectronic devices.
The work at JILA, a joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, is described in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Design of optoelectronic devices, like the semiconductor diode lasers used in...