This prevents the electrons from switching from a band with low energy, in which each electron remains bound ... particularly interesting to see what structure arises here and what possible ...

To improve the durability of tin perovskite, a method called Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) has been proposed that introduces large ...

Topological insulators (TIs) are among the hottest topics in condensed matter physics today. They’re a bit strange: their surfaces conduct electricity, yet their interiors do not, instead acting as ...

To resolve the controversy, Mahmood and his team took a new approach, turning their focus to the material's band structure. Quantum mechanics tells us that the electron energy levels in an isolate ...

“Although a wide range of [superconductor] correlated phenomena have indeed been observed in the moiré TMDs, robust ...

This confirmed an equation for energy splitting ... of conduction band electrons, a result of the band mixing with spin-orbit-split valence bands, manifests itself in electron-electron interaction ...

Through materials science, we can tailor existing substances or engineer completely novel materials to generate new and ...

Rice University physicist Emilia Morosan is part of an international research collaboration that has been awarded multimillion-dollar funding from The Kavli Foundation to develop and test ...

Titanium has a special uniaxial structure that can change with alloying ... that fewer signals were emitted when electrons moved between different energy bands, showing that electron behavior is ...