Some materials let electricity pass through them easily. These materials are known as electrical conductors. Metal is used in plugs to allow electricity to transfer from the wall socket ...

A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this "umbilical cord" is generic to many materials.

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 ...

How do you view your role as interim dean of undergraduate education? I see my role as one of an amplifier, connector and conductor—of energy, programs and people—all in service to the thousands of ...

Topological insulators are materials that are insulating in their interior but can support the flow of electrons on their surface. The underlying cause is time-reversal symmetry: their physics is ...

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Abstract: Influenced by high-speed airflow, pollution on the roof insulators is extremely distributed unevenly. When encountering the wet weather, the pollution will become humid and the dry bands are ...

Bioproducts Institute, Bioproducts Institute, The University of British Columbia, 2385 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The ...

water droplets on a conductor, or abrupt changes in charge of hardware (which could occur at an insulator). Conductor diameter is a variable that can affect the critical value for the formation of ...

Abstract: Measurements of the equivalent parallel conductance of metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) capacitors are shown to give more detailed and accurate information about interface states than ...

Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Mesoscopic Physics, School of ...