Once considered merely insulating, a change in the angle between silicon and oxygen atoms opens a pathway for electrical charge to flow. A breakthrough discovery from the University of Michigan has ...

Insulators have a wide band gap that is difficult for electrons to cross without absorbing a great deal of energy, if they can cross it at all. By contrast, conductors have a band gap that is ...

In insulators, these permitted energy bands are separated from each other by a wide “forbidden” energy range. This prevents the electrons from switching from a band with low energy, in which ...

We have seen in the toy model that by varying the amplitude of the periodic potential, insulators can be distinguished from conductors/semiconductors. For an insulator, the individual electrons are ...

The toy model presented in the previous issues lends itself to an instructive study that allows us to distinguish the behavior of a conductor from that of an insulator. Energy levels of free atoms and ...

This study delivers a thorough analysis of interplay between carrier and phonon, and energy transport in the 2D topological insulator under different temperatures. The interplay between electron and ...

A team of researchers at Bengaluru’s Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has unveiled a rare electron localization phenomenon known as the quasiclassical Anderson ...

This geometry enhances the influence of electron-electron interactions, directly leading to the realisation of a Mott insulator. THE ON-OFF SWITCH: ELECTRON POPULATION The authors constructed the star ...

The ability of this MOF to switch between Mott insulator and metal phases by modifying the electron population is a promising result that could be exploited in new types of electronic devices (for ...