An array of holes in a 2D material enhances an effect that improves the flow of electric currents. Read More »
A theoretical analysis suggests that a novel “twisting “microscope could offer new insights into the exotic electronic behavior of layered 2D materials. Read More »
Experiments reveal the factors that determine the friction between the single-atom-thick layers in van der Waals materials, which may have uses in lubrication technology. Read More »
New experiments reveal graphene’s exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness. Read More »
A friction-like quantum force could accelerate the motion of a rotating nanometer-diameter sphere when the sphere sits next to a graphene-coated surface. Read More »
A photonic version of graphene hosts never-before-seen “twig” edge states—which could provide new avenues for realizing topological phases in graphene-like materials. Read More »
Researchers have synthesized a chalcogenide compound that has the electronic structure of an ideal Dirac semimetal—which could facilitate the study of this exotic class of materials. Read More »
Graphene is found to exhibit a magnetoresistance dwarfing that of all known materials at room temperature—a behavior that may lead to new magnetic sensors and help decipher the physics of strange metals. Read More »
Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition. Read More »
A special microscope has visualized changes of electron current distribution that clearly indicate a transition from ohmic to viscous electron flow in graphene. Read More »
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