The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, ...

Figure 1: Defects on a TI surface. Impurity-induced carrier control is the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, and band structure engineering via disorder is the natural successor of such ...

In 3D time-reversal invariant systems, a topological insulator band structure leads to a strongly correlated topological insulator 26 (TI ∗) that, unlike the TMI described above, exhibits a ...

ARPES maps the electronic properties, including the band structure and Fermi surface, of the topological insulator bismuth selenide (left). Like graphene, the lower energy valence band of a ...

Theorists and experimenters with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have led in the exploration of the unique properties of topological insulators, where electrons may flow on the surface ...

It was the first time researchers have seen this kind of gate-dependent oscillation in nanoribbons and further correlates it to the topological insulator band structure of bismuth telluride. The ...

Around the bend. An acoustic topological insulator would guide sound waves around its edges, as shown in this simulation. Credit: Z. Yang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (2015) ...

The insulator unraveled Date: September 12, 2024 Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: Scientists have uncovered the detailed structure of the aluminum oxide surface, a challenge that ...

Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the development of an SOI (Silicon On Insulator) CMOS device technology with a new structure that achieves faster operation while reducing the operating voltage, ...

Bismuth-based nanoribbons show 'topological' transport, potential for new technologies Date: January 19, 2016 Source: Purdue University Summary: Researchers have created nanoribbons of an emerging ...