Student Finds Way to Boost Conductivity 400x Totally by Accident

Student Finds Way to Boost Conductivity 400x Totally by Accident

Like a modern Henri Becquerel, Washington State University doctoral student Marianne Tarun’s discovery came quite by accident. Her simple lab error has uncovered a new way to boost electrical conductivity of a crystal by 40,000 percent, simply by exposing it to light.

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