The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal

Courtesy NSF News  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 11:09

Photo of torque cantilever which measures magnetic property of bismuth in intense magnetic fields.

A team of researchers, at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and from the Universities of Michigan and Florida, has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.

This discovery, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and detailed in today's edition of the journal Science, could lead to new kinds of electronic devices.

Electrons, or the particles of electricity, fly through space like ...
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