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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...