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.

Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts ...

Metals are generally good conductors, but some materials such as wood, rubber, and plastic are not good at conducting electricity. These materials are called “insulators”. Electricity does not move ...

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 ...

Quantum theory restricts certain physical quantities to specific values, influencing material behavior, particularly in ...

In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, electronic materials are the foundation of countless devices and systems that power our daily lives. From smartphones and laptops to advanced ...

Mott insulators can become conductors by changing certain parameters, such as composition, pressure, strain, voltage, or magnetic field. This phenomenon is known as a Mott transition and has promising ...

ORDINARY electric conductors are sources of spontaneous fluctuations of voltage which can be measured with sufficiently sensitive instruments. This property of conductors appears to be the result ...

Yonsei researchers develop metal semiconductors to replace silicon devices Researchers at Yonsei University unveil ...