But beaming long-haul optical signals used to demand old, electron-based technology at way-stops.

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So how does this newfangled Electron Stimulated Luminescence technology work?

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Macronix will be presenting the technology at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting next week, but project deputy director Hans-Ting Lue wouldn't say when the company plans on taking the technology to market.

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The new technology solves significant performance problems resulting from the inefficient migration of electron charges associated with solar photons.

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The 2010 National Medal Science to Jacqueline K. Barton, California Institute of Technology, for discovery of a new property of the DNA helix long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics.

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