{"id":156740,"date":"2023-02-01T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/study-superconductivity-switches-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:23:37","slug":"study-superconductivity-switches-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/study-superconductivity-switches-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in \u2018magic-angle\u2019 graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-superconductivity-switches-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With some careful twisting and stacking, MIT physicists have revealed a new and exotic property in \u201cmagic-angle\u201d graphene: superconductivity that can be turned on and off with an electric pulse, much like a light switch.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery could lead to ultrafast, energy-efficient superconducting transistors for neuromorphic devices\u2014electronics designed to operate in a way similar to the rapid on\/off firing of neurons in the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>Magic-angle graphene refers to a very particular stacking of graphene\u2014an atom-thin material made from carbon atoms that are linked in a hexagonal pattern resembling chicken wire. When one sheet of graphene is stacked atop a second sheet at a precise \u201cmagic\u201d angle, the twisted structure creates a slightly offset \u201cmoir\u00e9\u201d pattern, or superlattice, that is able to support a host of surprising electronic behaviors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some careful twisting and stacking, MIT physicists have revealed a new and exotic property in \u201cmagic-angle\u201d graphene: superconductivity that can be turned on and off with an electric pulse, much like a light switch. The discovery could lead to ultrafast, energy-efficient superconducting transistors for neuromorphic devices\u2014electronics designed to operate in a way similar to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156740","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}