"A team of South Korean scientists said on Friday that they had developed a new technology that could open the way to make new devices that could replace current silicon-based semiconductors," reports AFP.
The team led by Kim Hyun-Tak of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said they had successfully manufactured what is known as a 'Mott insulator'.
Named after Nevill Mott, a British scientist who won the 1977 Nobel Physics Prize, Mott insulators, although metal-based, do not normally conduct electrical charges. Subjected to a high-voltage shock, however, Mott insulators can conduct electricity at relatively low temperatures of 67°C.
