{"id":118391,"date":"2021-01-11T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/researchers-finally-create-electron-crystals-86-years-after-first-proposed"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:54","slug":"researchers-finally-create-electron-crystals-86-years-after-first-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/researchers-finally-create-electron-crystals-86-years-after-first-proposed","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Finally Create Electron Crystals 86 Years After First Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-finally-create-electron-crystals-86-years-after-first-proposed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six years since electron crystals were first proposed, physicists have now constructed them, trapping electrons in a repeating pattern. The achievement is reported in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2868-6\">Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A crystal is made of a repeating pattern of particles but electrons are difficult to keep in place. So an electron crystal is like trying to organize a large number of electrons that won\u2019t stay still \u2014 it\u2019s the herding cats of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>However, this team had an ingenious solution. They built a Wigner crystal using layers of semi-conductors just one atom thick. They then used two different tungsten materials and created a hexagonal pattern known as a moir\u00e9 superlattice by placing one material on top of the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty-six years since electron crystals were first proposed, physicists have now constructed them, trapping electrons in a repeating pattern. The achievement is reported in the journal Nature. A crystal is made of a repeating pattern of particles but electrons are difficult to keep in place. So an electron crystal is like trying to organize a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118391","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=118391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}