Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays.
It's called a "chiral surface exciton <https://phys.org/tags/exciton/>," and it consists of particles and anti-particles bound together and swirling around each other on the surface of solids, according to a study in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-exotic-spiraling-electrons-physicists.html <https://phys.org/news/2019-02-exotic-spiraling-electrons-physicists.html#jCp>
