{"id":192021,"date":"2024-06-29T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-method-developed-for-measuring-thermal-expansion-in-atomically-thin-materials"},"modified":"2024-06-29T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T05:22:23","slug":"new-method-developed-for-measuring-thermal-expansion-in-atomically-thin-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-method-developed-for-measuring-thermal-expansion-in-atomically-thin-materials","title":{"rendered":"New method developed for measuring thermal expansion in atomically thin materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-developed-for-measuring-thermal-expansion-in-atomically-thin-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advanced materials, including two-dimensional or atomically thin materials just a few atoms thick, are essential for the future of microelectronics technology. Now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a way to directly measure such materials\u2019 thermal expansion coefficient, the rate at which the material expands as it heats. That insight can help address heat-related performance issues of materials incorporated into microelectronics, such as computer chips.<\/p>\n<p>The research has been published in ACS Nano (\u201cDirect measurement of the thermal expansion coefficient of epitaxial WSe 2 by four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s well understood that heating a material usually results in expansion of the atoms arranged in the material\u2019s structure,\u201d said Theresa Kucinski, scientist with the Nuclear Materials Science Group at Los Alamos. \u201cBut things get weird when the material is only one to a few atoms thick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced materials, including two-dimensional or atomically thin materials just a few atoms thick, are essential for the future of microelectronics technology. Now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a way to directly measure such materials\u2019 thermal expansion coefficient, the rate at which the material expands as it heats. That insight can help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192021","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=192021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}