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• n  a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities

• semiconductor

News & Articles

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• Nanowires three atoms wide could lead to paper-thin gadgets
  What's that odd shape, you ask? That's the world's thinnest nanowire -- and it could be the key to a future wave of flexible devices. In blasting single-layered, semiconducting materials with an electron beam, Vanderbilt University student Junhao Lin...
  April 30, 2014 - Engadget