{"id":161309,"date":"2023-03-30T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/discovery-of-a-new-topological-phase-could-lead-to-exciting-developments-in-nanotechnology"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:25:14","slug":"discovery-of-a-new-topological-phase-could-lead-to-exciting-developments-in-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/discovery-of-a-new-topological-phase-could-lead-to-exciting-developments-in-nanotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of a new topological phase could lead to exciting developments in nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-a-new-topological-phase-could-lead-to-exciting-developments-in-nanotechnology3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge researchers have discovered a new topological phase in a two-dimensional system, which could be used as a new platform for exploring topological physics in nanoscale devices.<\/p>\n<p>Two-dimensional materials such as graphene have served as a playground for the experimental discovery and theoretical understanding of a wide range of phenomena in physics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a>. Beyond graphene, there are a large number 2D materials, all with different physical properties. This is promising for potential applications in nanotechnology, where a wide range of functionality can be achieved in devices by using different 2D materials or stacking combinations of different layers.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently discovered that in materials such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hexagonal+boron+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hexagonal boron nitride<\/a> (hBN), which are less symmetric than graphene, ferroelectricity occurs when one layer slides over the other and breaks a symmetry. Ferroelectricity is the switching of a material\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+dipole+moment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric dipole moment<\/a> with an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric field<\/a>, which is a useful property for information processing and memory storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge researchers have discovered a new topological phase in a two-dimensional system, which could be used as a new platform for exploring topological physics in nanoscale devices. Two-dimensional materials such as graphene have served as a playground for the experimental discovery and theoretical understanding of a wide range of phenomena in physics and materials science. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161309","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=161309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}