Mott and Kondo insulators—how external stimuli can modify electronic energy bands

A study from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) has uncovered a theoretical mechanism showing how the electronic band structures of strongly correlated insulators can be ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Farewell to overheating problems in electronic devices—scientists announce a quantum material that conducts electricity without generating heat, changing the rules of the game

A group of scientists has created a quantum material where electricity can flow without losing energy as heat. Until now, this was only seen in ...
Newsweek

Electrical Currents Controlled With Quantum Switch Turn Metals Into Insulators

Scientists in Canada have shown off a groundbreaking way of controlling electrical currents at will by altering the typical behaviour of electrons. Researchers from the University of British Columbia ...
Nanowerk

Researchers reveal the reality of lossless energy transport in topological insulators

(Nanowerk News) Topological insulators raise the exciting the hope of realising lossless energy transport, which is true at ultralow temperatures. However, topological insulators fail to maintain this ...
EurekAlert!

Theoretical principles of band structure manipulation in strongly correlated insulators with spin and charge perturbations

A study from the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) has uncovered a theoretical mechanism showing how the electronic band structures of strongly correlated insulators can be ...
Nanowerk

Switching identities: Revolutionary insulator-like material also conducts electricity

(Nanowerk News) University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have made a material that can transition from an electricity-transmitting metal to a nonconducting insulating material without changing its ...
Phys.org

Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain in a new theoretical model

Long known as the hardest of all natural materials, diamonds are also exceptional thermal conductors and electrical insulators. Now, researchers have discovered a way to tweak tiny needles of diamond ...
T&D

Iran Utility Addresses Insulator Contamination

Examples of polluted overhead-line insulators in KZREC’s area. The Namdaran Transmission System Co. is responsible for the design and replacement of 400-kV, 230-kV and 132-kV traditional insulators ...
T&D

Insulator Washing to Maintain the Electricity Transmission Network in North Queensland

Powerlink is busy preparing for the upcoming summer season with helicopters taking to the skies to wash insulators across North Queensland, Australia; a job critical to the continued safe and reliable ...
Business Wire

Electrical Insulators - Global Market Forecasts from 2018 to 2023 by Type, Size, Application and Geography - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Electrical Insulator Market - Forecasts from 2018 to 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The electrical insulator market is expected to grow ...
Popular Mechanics

How Does Electricity Work? The Answer Has Changed Over the Ages

Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...