Crystal lattice at a distance: Moiré material method makes it easier to study interactions between electrons
To study the interactions between electrons in a material, physicists have come up with a number of tricks over the years.
Scientists Just Found a Mind-Bending Way to Control Electrons
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new technique to better understand how electrons interact within materials. By ...
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New synthesis technology for single-crystal 2D semiconductors could spawn next-generation devices
This technique enables the direct growth of wafer-scale single-crystal 2D semiconductors on various ... development and the synthesis of novel lattice structures." More information: Donghoon ...
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Crystal lattice at a distance
Researchers have developed a method by which artificial crystal lattices with a large lattice constant can be created in a semiconductor material. The large lattice constant leads to a reduced ...
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New Design for Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers
These equations improve in-plane 2D coupling for TM-mode triangular ... of the coupled wave equations for unit cells in the crystal lattice, which can assist in the experimental design of more ...
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Twistronics – at the intersection of nanotechnology and materials science
Considered the pioneer of 2D materials, graphene opened a pathway to ... hBN and graphene have the same crystal structure, but the hBN in-plane lattice constant is 1.8% larger. The λ values show the ...
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Van der Waals heterostructures
If one considers 2D crystals as Lego blocks (right panel), construction ... procedures presented several drawbacks such as the difficulty to align the crystal lattices (with atomic accuracy) of the ...