NIST Collaboration Heats Up Exotic Topological Insulators | NIST

NIST Collaboration Heats Up Exotic Topological Insulators | NIST

NIST Collaboration Heats Up Exotic Topological Insulators

Fashion is changing in the avant-garde world of next-generation computer component materials. Traditional semiconductors like silicon are releasing their last new lines. Exotic materials called topological insulators (TIs) are on their way in. And when it comes to cool, nitrogen is the new helium.

This was clearly on display in a novel experiment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that was performed by a multi-institutional collaboration including UCLA, NIST and the Beijing Institute of Technology in China.

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