Friday, 4 June 2021

New form of silicon could enable next-gen electronic and energy devices

A team developed a new method for synthesizing a novel crystalline form of silicon with a hexagonal structure that could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devices with enhanced properties that exceed those of the 'normal' cubic form of silicon used today.

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Make it worth Weyl: Engineering the first semimetallic Weyl quantum crystal

Researchers have demonstrated an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking a breakthrough in a decade-old problem of quantum materials.