In recent decades, computers have become faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever. Physical limits are preventing silicon ...

I wonder what other conductors we can find. It looks like when you find a conductor, you also find an insulator. Fran: Yes you are right, conductors and insulators are usually found together to ...

University of Cambridge researchers have discovered that a material already known for its peculiar electrical properties appears to behave as both a conductor and an insulator at the same time.

Combining a topological insulator with a superconductor could enable the design of advanced materials with broad potential application in semiconductor electronics and computing, including novel ...

AFM facilitates atomic resolution imaging of insulator and conductor surfaces. One of the techniques utilizing AFM is frequency-modulation AFM (FM-AFM), which has been used for the atomic-resolution ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...