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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Scientists studying a special kind of semimetals have found a material with an unusually pristine nature that could be crucial for developing powerful new quantum technologies and discovering new ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...