>> ... it was post-doctoral fellow Moe Rashidi, who immigrated from Iran, who deserves the credit.<p>>> "He really did all the brilliant work,” Wolkow said. “Tremendous people are drawn here … and become fantastic new members of Canada.”<p>That was one of the key takeaways here, a reminder of how important skilled immigration is to any country. That patent is owned by Canadians now.
Here's a blog post with a little more technical information:
<a href="http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=8220957780642915834" rel="nofollow">http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=822...</a><p>Link to the paper: <a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.276805" rel="nofollow">https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...</a><p>Also, A less click-baity title might be "Uni. of Alberta researchers discover the physical process behind negative differential resistance."
As per usual for mainstream scientific articles... shallow, lot's of hyperbole, very little info...<p>Does anyone have a better source for this? Maybe a link to the paper?