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Semiconductors and electronics

Semiconductors and electronics

Fractional charge carriers discovered

24 Oct 1997

Last month, two groups of physicists revealed the first direct evidence that an electric current can be carried by quasiparticles with fractional charge.

Electric charge normally comes in an indivisible unit: the charge of an electron. Indeed, quarks

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