Year: 2022

MOIRÉ OPTICS. “When two very similar grids with light and dark elements overlap, new sinuous patterns emerge that seem to shimmer and flow.” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM MOIRÉ. “Recently, moiré effects have also entered the quantum realm in a big way, as David H. Freedman reported in his Quanta article “With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics.” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

MAGIC ANGLE. “Freedman highlights a stunning discovery made by the experimental physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: When a layer of graphene, a sheet of carbon crystal with atoms arranged in a hexagonal one-atom-thick lattice, is dropped on another one and rotated to just the correct angle of about 1.1 degrees, the graphene magically acquires the ability to become superconductive when the requisite number of electrons are added.” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

ANTICIPATED. “That interesting things would happen at around this magic angle had been mathematically predicted by the theorists Rafi Bistritzer and Allan H. MacDonald, both then at the University of Texas, Austin.” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

GRAPHENE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. “Why does rotated graphene exhibit this behavior? (Hint: It has something to do with moiré patterns.)” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE. “The large moiré pattern of the superlattice is both visually striking and electrically special, as the emergence of superconductivity shows.” https://lnkd.in/enBM2vJn View in LinkedIn

THE MAIN PAPER. “The Magic Kingdom of imperfect graphene, by Wei Sun Leong, of the Singapore University of Social Sciences.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

RICH HUNTING. “Graphene is a name given to the thinnest material manufacturable on record, which is made of a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The discovery of graphene has led to the award of at least two Nobel Prizes in Physics within a short timespan.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

USEFUL DEFECTS. “This article discusses the magic applications, brought by the imperfect graphene, which were thought to be impossible. It focuses on the recent demonstrations of graphene electronics that operation mechanisms rely on defects in graphene.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

TECH APPLICATIONS. “In applications such as graphene-silicon technology, twistronics, spintronics, and biomedical electronics, imperfections in graphene are at the center of technology advancements.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn