Electron "Leapfrog" Could Lead to Low-Power Nanoscale Devices

Remember leapfrog? Not the electronic tablets currently in Santa's bag, but the outdoor, no-equipment-required game where your friends crouch down in a line and you vault over each person until you reach the front? It turns out that electrons play a variation of this game too. A game of leapfrog. Image Credit: Chicago's North Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau (CC BY 2.0) In a paper that will soon be published in Physical Review Letters, a team of Canadian scientists have discovered the physic...