Nov 9, 2023
In a first, MIT researchers successfully trap electrons in 3D crystal
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: materials, particle physics
Previous attempts at trapping them in 2D had failed.
Successful electron trapping in 3D
The MIT team looked for materials that could be used to work out 3D lattices in kagome patterns and came across pyrochlore — a mineral with highly symmetric atomic arrangements. In 3D, pyrochlore’s atoms formed a repeating pattern consisting of cubes in a kagome-like lattice.
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