Engineers from the University of Utah and the University of Minnesota have found that interfacing two particular oxide-based materials makes them highly conductive, could bring about substantially more power-effective tablets, electric cars andhome appliances.

Two oxide compounds ,strontium titanate (STO) and neodymium titanate (NTO) — interact with each other, produces many free electrons that could result more energy efficient. when STO and NTO interface each other, the amount of electrons generated is a hundred times larger than what is possible in semiconductors.It is also about five times more conductive than silicon [the material most used in electronics] University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez said.

Sensale-Rodriguez believes that if more electronics use these materials for transistors, collectively it could save significant amounts of electricity for the country.“it’s fundamentally a different road toward power electronics, and the results are very exciting” he says. “But we still need to do more research.”.

According to University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science assistant professor Bharat Jalan: “When I look at the future, I see that we can perhaps improve conductivity by an order of magnitude through optimizing of the materials growth. “We are bringing the possibility of high power, low energy oxide electronics closer to reality.”

According to Sensale-Rodriguez ,it will improve power transistors- devices in electronics that regulate the electrical current -by making power supplies much more efficient for items ranging from televisions and refrigerators to handheld devices and Laptop computers. there is less power wasted (wasted electricity usually dissipates into heat),these devices will not run as hot as before.

Sources:  http://unews.utah.edu