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Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design. The scientists determined ...

Bismuth titanate thin films have emerged as a material of significant interest due to their unique crystalline structures and multifunctional properties. These films, frequently exhibiting a ...

Physicists have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design. The material has potential to improve solar cell ...

Bismuth-based superconductors represent a highly active area of condensed matter research, where the intricate interplay between layered crystal structures and electronic properties underpins the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Bismuth antimonide (BiSb) is an important material in nanoelectronics as a topological insulator – offering unique opportunities to control electric currents and magnetism, and a ...

Scientists have discovered a new class of materials: higher-order topological insulators. Theoretical physicists first predicted the existence of these insulators with conducting properties on the ...

A reader recently requested a chemistry lesson about bismuth. Why?? Beats me. It takes all kinds. Some people eat sweetbreads and some like nipple clamps. What follows may or may not be worse. And, by ...

China's first lead-bismuth alloy zero-power reactor - Qixing (Venus) III - achieved first criticality on 9 October, the China Institute of Atomic Energy has announced. The milestone marks the start of ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have applied advanced electron microscopy techniques to finally unveil the structure of the widely used and century-old active pharmaceutical ingredient bismuth ...

Theoretical physicists first predicted the existence of these insulators with conducting properties on the edges of crystals rather than on their surface and their characteristic ability to conduct ...