In 2006, the group of Californian theoretical physicists has made an interesting prediction, according to which “sandwich” of the semiconductors with a thin layer of mercury telluride (HgTe) in the middle the electrons will behave in a very unusual way, showing the spin Hall effect. In 2007 the corresponding sandwich was made by experimental physicists from Germany. And they find in it exactly what was predicted by their counterparts from California.



