At an atomic level, semiconductors have a crystalline structure in which their electrons are arranged in energy bands. The ...

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"We can now see the moment where atomic nuclei and electrons are uniting in the afterglow," team member Rasmus Damgaard, a researcher at the Cosmic DAWN Center, said in a statement. For the first ...

Temperatures this extreme result in electrons not being attached to atomic nuclei, but instead floating around in a so-called ionized plasma. The electrons "dance" around. But in the ensuing ...

but their nature causes all the isolated islands of conduction—the conduction bands (bands of electron orbitals that electrons can jump into from valence bands), situated near, but separate from ...