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It’s a Quasicrystal! It’s a Topological Insulator! In 1-D!
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on December 10, 2012
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Is anyone old enough to remember the ad in which two people walking down the street while snacking accidently bump into each other and discover peanut butter on a chocolate bar? Well, it turns out that when physics students run into each other on the street, the result is a quasicrystal with topological properties. The…
Uncrossing the Wires
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on August 28, 2011 A recent study by Prof. Ernesto Joselevich and his team, published in Science, features perfectly aligned horizontal arrays of thin, millimeter-long nanowires. We spoke with Joselevich recently to find out why he and others in the field are excited by this advance: WSW: Your lab has produced a fair amount of innovative research in recent…