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FENA Sponsored Work Ranked as One of the Top Ten Discoveries Made in 2007

Shou-Cheng Zhang

Science Magazine recently published a list of ten top breakthroughs of the year for 2007. Breakthrough number 6 highlighted the unusual behavior of electronics called quantum spin Hall effects also known as QSHE. Theoretical physicist, Shoucheng Zhang, a FENA researcher working within the Simulation and Computation of Novel Engineering Nanomaterials and Devices theme at Stanford, was recognized for his work in predicating the behavior of semiconductor sandwiches with thin layers of mercury telluride (HgTe) in the middle. This work was further validated by a team of experimental physicists in Germany.

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