Using an X-ray technique, scientists found that the metal-insulator transition in the correlated material magnetite is a two-step process. By using an x-ray technique available at the National ...

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Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on "topological insulators," an emerging class of materials that could make possible "spintronic" devices and practical ...

A new experiment offers the cleanest proof yet for magnetism-driven transitions of metals to insulators. Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying ...

The BBVA Foundation's award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this 11th edition to physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele, 'for their discovery of topological insulators, a new class of ...

Not only does the Westinghouse design live on, but iterative improvements to insulators, mountings and housings make this IPB design even more rugged and reliable Isolated-phase bus (IPB) systems are ...

In common with utilities around the world, parts of Eskom’s medium-voltage distribution network in South Africa suffer from pole-top fires, adversely impacting reliability. A.K. Persadh studied this ...