New process to engineer nanoscale arrays of conducting channels

A large collaboration of researchers led by the University of Wollongong has used nuclear techniques at ANSTO and other methods to develop a process to engineer nanoscale arrays of conducting channels for advanced scalable electronic circuitry.

As reported in a paper in Nature Communications, investigators created patterns of topological surface edge states on antimony telluride (Sb₂Te₃)  that made the surface edges conductive while the bulk layer beneath remained an insulator