Thin conductor: A chip made of the non-crystalline topological semimetal niobium phosphide. (Courtesy: A Khan) Metals usually become less conductive as they get thinner. Niobium phosphide, however, is ...

In a paper published in Science, Stanford researchers show that niobium phosphide can conduct electricity better than copper in films that are only a few atoms thick. Moreover, these films can be ...

The rapid technological advancements of our world have been enabled by our capacity to design and fabricate ever smaller electronic chips. These underpin computers, mobile phones and every smart ...

STANFORD researchers have developed a semimetal more conductive than copper, paving the way for an energy-efficient ...

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A group at Stanford University has published a new paper showing that thin films of a material known as niobium phosphide (NbP) exhibit much higher conductivity than copper below a thickness of 5 ...