As part of Conversations on the Quantum World, a webinar series hosted by the Caltech Science Exchange, Nai-Chang Yeh, Caltech’s Thomas W. Hogan Professor of Physics, discusses what quantum materials are and why we can expect to find them in future technologies.
Yeh, who previously co-directed Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute, invents powerful tools and approaches to study and engineer materials at the tiny scale of billionths of a meter. She investigates materials with fascinating quantum properties, such as superconductors, exotic magnets, graphene, topological materials, and materials made of atomically thin sheets or wires.
In conversation with Caltech writer Ann Motrunich, Yeh explains the special tools and techniques needed to conduct research at the nanoscale, and describes the powerful potential of quantum materials to transform the future of computation, sustainability, medicine, and other fields.
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