News articles tagged with 'conductivity' (Page 5)
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Berkeley researchers make thermoelectric breakthrough in silicon nanowires
— 11 Jan 2008 17:53 | PhysicsEnergy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed through the use of silicon nanowires synthesised via a technique developed by researchers with the U.S.…
Crystal-to-metal: transformation on the nanoscale
— 13 Dec 2007 21:44 | ChemistryUnique 'near-field' microscopy at the MPI of Biochemistry allowed, for the first time, viewing on the nanoscale the spontaneous appearance and growth of metallic puddles that mark the…
Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table
— 15 Sep 2007 18:54 | PhysicsPhysicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene - a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings - can act as an atomic-scale billiard table, with electric…