Dirac Metals: New Class of Quantum Materials for Clean Energy Technology
Researchers from IIT Bombay have discovered special properties in a class of materials called “semi-Dirac metals”.
About Dirac Metals
- Normal metals like gold and silver are good conductors of electricity. A key aspect that decides the quality of conduction is the way energy depends on the momentum of electrons. Dirac metals differ from normal metals in that the energy depends linearly on the momentum. This difference is responsible for their unique properties.
- Semi-Dirac metals behave like Dirac metals in one direction and like normal metals in the perpendicular directions (since their microscopic structure is different along the two directions).
- Within any ....
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