metal-insulator transition

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metal-insulator transition [′med·əl ¦in·sə‚lād·ər tran′zish·ən]

(solid-state physics)

The change of certain low-dimensional conductors from metals to insulators as the temperature is lowered through a certain value, due to the lattice distortion and band gap accompanying the onset of a charge-density wave.

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