{"id":34799,"date":"2017-02-23T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/synopsis-revealing-a-hidden-spin-polarization"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:43","slug":"synopsis-revealing-a-hidden-spin-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/synopsis-revealing-a-hidden-spin-polarization","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis: Revealing a Hidden Spin Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synopsis-revealing-a-hidden-spin-polarization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photoemission spectroscopy has detected two different populations of spin-polarized electrons that are \u201chidden\u201d within a layered, graphene-like material.<\/p>\n<p>The layers inside certain materials can carry spin-polarized electrons, but this polarization is hidden to measurements that aren\u2019t sufficiently localized. A new study using photoemission spectroscopy has detected the hidden spin polarization in a graphene-like material called molybdenum disulfide (MoS22). Unique to this work is the ability to target specific populations of spin-polarized electrons with circularly polarized light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.118.086402\">http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.118.086402<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoemission spectroscopy has detected two different populations of spin-polarized electrons that are \u201chidden\u201d within a layered, graphene-like material. The layers inside certain materials can carry spin-polarized electrons, but this polarization is hidden to measurements that aren\u2019t sufficiently localized. A new study using photoemission spectroscopy has detected the hidden spin polarization in a graphene-like material called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56814,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions\/56814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}