Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics
Berkeley Lab researchers and their colleagues demonstrate unique new materials for innovative electronic and magnetic applications Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their colleagues in other institutions, these "strong 3-D topological insulators" - TIs for short - are seemingly mundane semiconductors with startling properties. For starters, picture a good insulator on the inside that's a good conductor on its surface - something like a copper-coated bowling ball. A topological insulator's surface is not an ordinary metal, however. The direction and spin of the surface electrons are locked together and change in concert. And perhaps the most surprising prediction is that the surface electrons cannot be scattered by defects or other perturbations and thus meet litt
Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics
(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered ...
Tue 15 May 12 from Phys.org
Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics, Tue 15 May 12 from Labspaces.net
Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics, Tue 15 May 12 from e! Science News
Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics, Tue 15 May 12 from ScienceDaily
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Insulators Are Path to Room-Temperature Spintronics
Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world.
Tue 15 May 12 from Laboratory Equipment
Topological Insulators Open a Path to Room-Temperature Spintronics
Berkeley Lab researchers and their colleagues demonstrate unique new materials for innovative electronic and magnetic applications Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few ...
Tue 15 May 12 from RedOrbit
A new world of spintronics with topological insulators
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory theorists and experimenters have led in the exploration of the unique properties of topological insulators, where electrons may flow on the surface without ...
Tue 15 May 12 from R&D Mag
Topological insulator shows promise for new class of room-temperature electronics
In the search for new materials with improved electrical conductivity, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found what appears to be a promising candidate. New experiments show ...
Tue 8 May 12 from R&D Mag
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