Our approach entails the drawing of extended fibre lengths fabricated by arranging a low-melting-temperature crystalline conductor (Sn), amorphous semiconductors (As–Se–Te–Sn and As 2 Se 3 ...

Here we demonstrate a photoanode that is capable of achieving a high photovoltage by engineering the interfacial energetics of metal–insulator–semiconductor junctions. We evaluate the ...

More information: Enyang Men et al, An atomically controlled insulator-to-metal transition in iridate/manganite heterostructures, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52616-8 ...

At the metal-semiconductor interface, energy losses are inevitable, an effect known as the Schottky barrier. Blue phosphorus is semiconducting as a single layer, but predicted to be metallic as a ...

Squeezing the right amount of potassium ions between the atomic layers of molybdenum disulfide can turn it from a semiconductor into a metal, superconductor or insulator Figure 1: A photograph of the ...

A new technical paper titled “In-Operando Spatiotemporal Imaging of Coupled Film-Substrate Elastodynamics During an Insulator-to-Metal Transition” was published by researchers at Pennsylvania State ...

The team has calculated that deforming diamond nano-needles would change their conductivity from an insulator to a semiconductor to a highly conductive metal – and back again at will.

The discovery, just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials, outlines the creation for the first time of a high-performance "metal-insulator-metal" diode. "Researchers have been ...