{"id":109111,"date":"2020-06-25T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/manipulating-the-flow-of-light-in-extreme-ways-using-magic-angle-twistronics"},"modified":"2020-06-25T04:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:50:45","slug":"manipulating-the-flow-of-light-in-extreme-ways-using-magic-angle-twistronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/manipulating-the-flow-of-light-in-extreme-ways-using-magic-angle-twistronics","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating the Flow of Light in Extreme Ways Using \u201cMagic Angle\u201d Twistronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/manipulating-the-flow-of-light-in-extreme-ways-using-magic-angle-twistronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Twisted\u2019 layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at \u2018magic\u2019 rotation angles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying \u2018twistronics\u2019 concepts (the science of layering and twisting 2D materials to control their electrical properties) to manipulate the flow of light in extreme ways.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published today in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, hold the promise for leapfrog advances in a variety of light-driven technologies, including nano-imaging devices; high-speed, low-energy optical computers; and biosensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Twisted\u2019 layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at \u2018magic\u2019 rotation angles. Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying \u2018twistronics\u2019 concepts (the science of layering and twisting 2D materials to control their electrical properties) to manipulate the flow of light in extreme ways. The findings, published today in the journal Nature, hold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}