You Can Have Your Conductor and Insulator, Too

Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 17:30 in Physics & Chemistry

By carefully tuning the chemical composition of a particular compound, researchers have created a topological crystalline insulator, whose bulk acts as an insulator but whose surface conducts electrical currents.

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