Harnessing an unusual 'valley' quantum property of electrons
Friday, September 26, 2014 - 07:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Yoshihiro Iwasa and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have discovered that ultrathin films of a semiconducting material have properties that form the basis for a new kind of low-power electronics, termed 'valleytronics'.