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Owen Hughes

Razor-thin crystalline film 'built atom-by-atom' gets electrons moving 7 times faster than in semiconductors

New shiny material in the shape of a sharks fin.

Scientists have developed a new type of razor-thin crystal film semiconductor that enables electrons to move seven times faster than they do in traditional semiconductors — and it could have huge implications for electronic devices.

In a study published July 1 in the journal Materials Today Physics, physicists created an extremely thin film from a crystalline material called ternary tetradymite.

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