{"id":216563,"date":"2025-06-25T02:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/more-pathways-that-previously-thought-can-lead-to-optical-topological-insulators"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:18:31","slug":"more-pathways-that-previously-thought-can-lead-to-optical-topological-insulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/more-pathways-that-previously-thought-can-lead-to-optical-topological-insulators","title":{"rendered":"More pathways that previously thought can lead to optical topological insulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-pathways-that-previously-thought-can-lead-to-optical-topological-insulators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow\u2019s cutting-edge optical technologies\u2014such as lasers, detectors and imaging devices\u2014is much deeper than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to new research from the University of Michigan that examined a class of materials known as topological insulators. These materials have exciting and tunable properties when it comes to how they transmit energy and information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see this as a step toward building a more versatile and powerful foundation for future photonic technologies,\u201d said Xin Xie, a research fellow in the U-M Department of Physics and lead author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.15.021061\" target=\"_blank\">recent study<\/a> in the journal Physical Review X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow\u2019s cutting-edge optical technologies\u2014such as lasers, detectors and imaging devices\u2014is much deeper than previously believed. That\u2019s according to new research from the University of Michigan that examined a class of materials known as topological insulators. These materials have exciting and tunable properties when it comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216563","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=216563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}