A wafer-thin flake of bismuth telluride can act a little like a one-way street for electricity, even when the push comes from ...

The generation of electricity from heat, also known as thermoelectric energy conversion, has proved to be advantageous for various real-world applications. For instance, it proved useful for the ...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. ZENG Changgan and Associate Researcher LI Lin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...

(a) Shows how the materials are layered in the heterostructure with six magnetic MBT septuple layers (SLs) and BP layers on top and bottom. (b) Shows atom arrangement in a single MBT SL. (c) Shows ...

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The nonlinear susceptibility is a measure of a material's nonlinear response to an applied electric field. It determines the strength of the nonlinear effects and is related to the crystal's symmetry ...

A research team in Korea has experimentally demonstrated, for the first time in the world, a nonlinear wave phenomenon that changes its frequency—either rising or falling—depending on which direction ...

An international team led by Professor Dongchen Qi of the QUT School of Chemistry and Physics and Professor Xiao Renshaw Wang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has discovered how tiny ...