A wafer-thin flake of bismuth telluride can act a little like a one-way street for electricity, even when the push comes from an alternating signal. But the direction of that “street” is not fixed.

Recently, the research team led by Prof. ZENG Changgan and Associate Researcher LI Lin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...

A research team from Nanjing University has developed an in-situ on-device electrochemical intercalation method to manipulate the structural and electronic properties of MoS 2 thin flakes, resulting ...

An international team of scientists has shown that tiny imperfections and vibrations within a ...

Researchers have discovered that thin films of elemental bismuth exhibit the so-called non-linear Hall effect, which could be applied in technologies for the controlled use of terahertz high-frequency ...

The generation of electricity from heat, also known as thermoelectric energy conversion, has proved to be advantageous for various real-world applications. For instance, it proved useful for the ...

PhD student Xu Zhang (on the left) and his advisor Dr Zi Yang Meng from the Department of Physics at HKU. Image Credit: The University of Hong Kong The research sheds new light on the distinctive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bi2Te3 shows a room-temperature nonlinear Hall effect that can flip with heat, hinting at compact AC-to-DC energy harvesters.

Particularly: the quantum effect is observed at room temperature. The thin-layer films can be applied even on plastic substrates and could therefore be suitable for modern high-frequency technology ...

A new study has revealed how tiny imperfections and vibrations inside a promising quantum material could be used to control an unusual quantum effect, opening new possibilities for smaller, faster, ...