For all its possibilities, nature tends to replay one particular scene over and over again: the confrontation between matter and light. It stages the scene in a practically infinite number of ways, ...

In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

Over the past century, experimental physicists and engineers have developed sophisticated methods to create semiconducting silicon-based devices, such as diodes, transistors and memory elements, of ...