For over a century, copper has been the undisputed king of electrical conductivity. From power grids to the smallest ...

STANFORD researchers have developed a semimetal more conductive than copper, paving the way for an energy-efficient ...

Semimetals can be viewed as a kind of extreme limit of a semiconductor with zero 'energy gap," right at the threshold between insulator and metal. This extreme case remains exceedingly rare in real ...

Over the past two decades, physicists have been fascinated by semimetals — rare materials with zero energy gap, right at the threshold between metal and insulator. Some semimetals can host ...

Now we have another class of materials – these topological semimetals – that could potentially act as a way to reduce energy usage in electronics.” Upon further analysis, it appears that the high ...

The rapid technological advancements of our world have been enabled by our capacity to design and fabricate ever smaller electronic chips. These underpin computers, mobile phones and every smart ...

Chiral Weyl fermions are massless particles first proposed in theoretical physics but found in condensed matter as excitations in Weyl semimetals. These materials are unique 3D phases with special ...

“Now we have another class of materials – these topological semimetals – that could potentially act as a way to reduce energy usage in electronics.” Because the niobium phosphide films don’t need to ...