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McGill physicists discover new state of matter
Published: 23 October 2008
Canadian physicists say they have discovered a previously
unknown state of matter that could have a momentous impact on
creation of new electronic devices. Ï㽶ÊÓƵ researchers
say the new state of matter, a quasi-three- dimensional electron
crystal, is a material very much like those used in the fabrication
of modern transistors. "It's actually not quite 3-D, it's an
in-between state, a totally new phenomenon," said Guillaume
Gervais, director of McGill's Ultra-Low Temperature Condensed
Matter Experiment Lab. "This is the kind of thing the theoreticians
love. Now they're scratching their heads and trying to fine-tune
their models."
The researchers' findings appear in the journal Nature Physics.