{"id":162736,"date":"2023-04-23T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-particular-sandwich-of-graphene-and-boron-nitride-may-lead-to-next-gen-microelectronics"},"modified":"2023-04-23T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:22:19","slug":"a-particular-sandwich-of-graphene-and-boron-nitride-may-lead-to-next-gen-microelectronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-particular-sandwich-of-graphene-and-boron-nitride-may-lead-to-next-gen-microelectronics","title":{"rendered":"A particular \u2018sandwich\u2019 of graphene and boron nitride may lead to next-gen microelectronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-particular-sandwich-of-graphene-and-boron-nitride-may-lead-to-next-gen-microelectronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moir\u00e9 patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence through a second chain-link fence.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 10 years, scientists have been experimenting with the moir\u00e9 pattern that emerges when a sheet of graphene is placed between two sheets of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/boron+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">boron nitride<\/a>. The resulting moir\u00e9 pattern has shown tantalizing effects that could vastly improve <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/semiconductor+chips\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor chips<\/a> that are used to power everything from computers to cars.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by University at Buffalo researchers, and published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, demonstrated that graphene can live up to its promise in this context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moir\u00e9 patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence through a second chain-link fence. For more than 10 years, scientists have been experimenting with the moir\u00e9 pattern that emerges when a sheet of graphene [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162736","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}