Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

At the heart of the semiconductor industry are materials that exhibit conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator, depending on conditions. Silicon, the most prevalent semiconductor ...

Now, the outside of electric wires are usually covered in plastic because it’s a very poor conductor. It hardly conducts any electricity at all, so we can say it’s an electrical insulator.

Scientists have developed a hybrid material that switches between conducting and insulating states while maintaining ...

On the periodic table, semiconductors (also known as metalloids) crop up along a diagonal line between conductors and insulators. Noble gases such as helium and neon are poor conductors of ...

Yonsei researchers develop metal semiconductors to replace silicon devices Researchers at Yonsei University unveil revolutionary metal-based semiconductor technology ...

Silicon also is a poor heat conductor ... with thermal conductivity almost ten times greater than that of silicon. It also has a good bandgap, making it very attractive as a semiconductor material.

From mobile phones, computers, medical equipment, and even cars and airplanes, almost every gadget in our modern world is powered by tiny microchips called semiconductors. But what exactly are ...