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Apr 23, 2023

A particular ‘sandwich’ of graphene and boron nitride may lead to next-gen microelectronics

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Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence through a second chain-link fence.

For more than 10 years, scientists have been experimenting with the moiré pattern that emerges when a sheet of graphene is placed between two sheets of . The resulting moiré pattern has shown tantalizing effects that could vastly improve that are used to power everything from computers to cars.

A new study led by University at Buffalo researchers, and published in Nature Communications, demonstrated that graphene can live up to its promise in this context.

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