To achieve this, the researchers carefully tuned the cooling rate. A fast “thermal quench”—dropping the temperature at around ...

A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity. Previously only thought to be insulating, a shift in the ...

Conductor, Semiconductor, Insulator On the periodic table, semiconductors (also known as metalloids) crop up along a diagonal line between conductors and insulators.

Researchers have unveiled the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene. The team says that their discovery could lead to the development of smaller and faster electronic devices.

Electrical current flows easily through a conductor, but does not flow through an insulator. Find out more with BBC Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor (like copper) and an insulator (like glass). Unlike conductors, which allow electricity to flow freely, and ...

Conductors have very low electrical resistivity of 10 -8 to 10 -4 Ωcm; insulators have very high resistivity of 10 8 to 10 18 Ωcm; and semiconductors have a resistivity between conductors and ...

An advance in a topological insulator material—whose interior behaves like an electrical insulator but whose surface behaves like a conductor—could revolutionize the fields of next-generation ...

Semiconductor chips are electronic devices that store and process information. Today they can contain billions of microscopic switches on a chip smaller than a fingernail.

With an electrical conductivity somewhere in between that of conductors and insulators, semiconductors have become an indispensable part of modern electronics. Nearly all electronics currently use ...