{"id":230035,"date":"2026-01-28T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ultrathin-kagome-metal-hosts-robust-3d-flat-electronic-band-state"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:23:45","slug":"ultrathin-kagome-metal-hosts-robust-3d-flat-electronic-band-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/ultrathin-kagome-metal-hosts-robust-3d-flat-electronic-band-state","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin kagome metal hosts robust 3D flat electronic band state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-kagome-metal-hosts-robust-3d-flat-electronic-band-state.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Monash University has uncovered a powerful new way to engineer exotic quantum states, revealing a robust and tunable three-dimensional flat electronic band in an ultrathin kagome metal, an achievement long thought to be nearly impossible. The study, \u201c3D Flat Band in Ultra-Thin Kagome Metal Mn\u2083Sn Film,\u201d by M. Zhao, J. Blyth, T. Yu and collaborators appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.202516003\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Materials<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery centers on Mn\u2083Sn films just three nanometers thick. Despite their extreme thinness, these films host a 3D flat band that spans the entire momentum space, offering an unprecedented platform for exploring strongly correlated quantum phases and designing future low-energy electronic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, 3D flat bands had only been observed in a few bulk materials with special lattice geometries,\u201d said Ph.D. candidate and co-lead author James Blyth, from the Monash University School of Physics and Astronomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Monash University has uncovered a powerful new way to engineer exotic quantum states, revealing a robust and tunable three-dimensional flat electronic band in an ultrathin kagome metal, an achievement long thought to be nearly impossible. The study, \u201c3D Flat Band in Ultra-Thin Kagome Metal Mn\u2083Sn Film,\u201d by M. Zhao, J. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230035","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}