Imagine how much you could accomplish if the circuits in your laptop and cell phone worked 10 times faster, and your battery lasted 10 times longer, than they do now. In order to understand the ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Topology is the branch of mathematics that explores the nature of shapes independent of deformation. Physicists developed the concept of the phases of matter with properties that ...
The observation of an abnormal state of matter in a 2-D magnetic material is the latest development in the race to harness novel electronic properties for more robust and efficient next-generation ...
Dirac and Weyl topological semimetals have recently been realized. In this Focus we highlight the quantum phenomena at the macroscale that these materials allow to be studied, their possible ...
When topological nodal semimetals are placed in a strong magnetic field, they become very good at converting heat current into electric power. That’s the new result from researchers at the ...
A kind of particle first predicted to exist before the discovery of Pluto has been spotted on Earth within a compound of tantalum and arsenic. The newly discovered particles, known as Weyl fermions, ...
Imagine a world in which electricity could flow through the grid without any losses or where all the data in the world could be stored in the cloud without the need for power stations. This seems ...
When the Fermi surface of a solid is close to a linear crossing of two bands, the low-energy quasiparticles are relativistic Weyl fermions 1,2,3. This linear crossing, known as a Weyl node, is ...
Semimetals promise more efficient conductivity, outperforming copper in energy use Copper’s limitations drive the search for semimetals like niobium phosphide Niobium phosphide conducts electricity ...
Weyl semimetals. Courtesy: Haim Beidenkopf, the Weizmann Institute of Science Topological materials can be insulating in the bulk but can conduct electricity extremely well on their edge via special, ...
(Nanowerk News) Researchers in China and at UC Davis have measured high conductivity in very thin layers of niobium arsenide, a type of material called a Weyl semimetal. The material has about three ...
A technical paper titled “Layered semimetal electrodes for future heterogeneous electronics” was published by researchers at IIT Madras and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. Find the ...