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Thursday, August 13, 2009

New exotic material could revolutionize electronics


This is a surface electron
band structure of bismuth
telluride.
Credit: Image courtesy of
Yulin Chen and Z. X. Shen




Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.


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