Topological Insulator Microscope Image (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Topological Insulator Microscope Image

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Law used a transmission electron microscope in UD's Keck Center for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis to capture this image showing the atom-by-atom layers of a topological insulator, which conducts electrons only on its surface.

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University of Delaware

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