{"id":145694,"date":"2022-09-05T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-devise-tunable-conducting-edge"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T02:24:44","slug":"researchers-devise-tunable-conducting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-devise-tunable-conducting-edge","title":{"rendered":"Researchers devise tunable conducting edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-devise-tunable-conducting-edge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride, or WTe<sub>2<\/sub>, a new quantum material. Called a magnetized or ferromagnetic quantum spin Hall insulator, this material of one-atom thickness has an insulating interior but a conducting edge, which has important implications for controlling electron flow in nanodevices.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical conductor, electrical current flows evenly everywhere. Insulators, on the other hand, do not readily conduct electricity. Ordinarily, monolayer WTe<sub>2<\/sub> is a special <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/insulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">insulator<\/a> with a conducting edge; magnetizing it bestows upon it more unusual properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stacked monolayer WTe<sub>2<\/sub> with an insulating ferromagnet of several atomic layer thickness\u2014of Cr<sub>2<\/sub>Ge<sub>2<\/sub>Te<sub>6<\/sub>, or simply CGT\u2014and found that the WTe<sub>2<\/sub> had developed ferromagnetism with a conducting edge,\u201d said Jing Shi, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UCR, who led the study. \u201cThe edge flow of the electrons is unidirectional and can be made to switch directions with the use of an external magnetic field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated a new magnetized state in a monolayer of tungsten ditelluride, or WTe2, a new quantum material. Called a magnetized or ferromagnetic quantum spin Hall insulator, this material of one-atom thickness has an insulating interior but a conducting edge, which has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}