---
title: "Material with superfast electrons could be suitable for new electronics"
description: "The niobium phosphide contains superfast charge carriers, known as relativistic electrons that move at around one thousandth the speed of light, or 300 kilometers per second."
date: "2015-06-23"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Mike Anderson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/manderson"
url: "https://futurism.com/material-with-superfast-electrons-could-be-suitable-for-new-electronics"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "computing"
---

# Material with superfast electrons could be suitable for new electronics

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- Electronic systems are expected to process and store a steadily increasing amount of data, faster and faster, and in less space. Luckily, physicists discover effects that help engineers to develop better electronic components with surprising regularity, for instance a phenomenon known as giant magnetoresistance.
- Modern hard discs utilize this phenomenon to significantly alter the resistance of a material by exposing it to a magnetic field. Until now, the computer industry has used various materials stacked on top of each other in a filigree structure to achieve this effect.
- Now, Max Planck scientists in Dresden have observed a rapid increase in resistance by a factor of 10,000 in a non-complex material, namely niobium phosphide (NbP).