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- For semiconductors, the path from theoretical understanding to device implementation was neither linear nor easily predicted. Topological materials seem to be following a similar trajectory. We have theoretical understanding and many ideas for novel devices, but ongoing materials development suggests the tantalizing possibility of our being at the dawn of a topological age. Here, we describe what it means for materials to be topological and how topology raises the prospect of revolutionary new devices.
It's been a good while. Am I wrong to look at this as structural modes of similar conductance within periodic boundary conditions? Materials scientists are the closest thing we have to deities. They wield the power of the divine, and make our world as economists, sociologists, artists, politicians, etc., vie for credit.Historians often label epochs of human history according to their material technologies—the bronze age, the iron age, and, most recently, the silicon age.
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