Creating Unconventional Metals: Quantum Halfway House Between Magnet And Semiconductor Discovered
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 16:35
in Physics & Chemistry
The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. Scientists now report that they have combined these elements with a small amount of another common metal, manganese, to create a new material which is neither a magnet nor an ordinary semiconductor.
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