Right now, you can probably just ask your smartphone to tell you the charge of a single electron—the fundamental unit of charge. (It has a magnitude of 1.6 x 10 –19 coulombs, the common unit for ...
A research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute has spectroscopically observed fractionalisation of electronic charge in an iron-based metallic ferromagnet. Experimental observation of the ...
Controlled transfer of single electrons in nanoscale devices allows electric current to be measured in fundamental units of charge and frequency. A new silicon device promises to make these standards ...