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A Berkeley Lab-led team of physicists and materials scientists has, for the first time, unambiguously observed and documented the unique optical phenomena that occur in certain types of synthetic materials called moire superlattices – materials made by layering sheets of single-atom-thick materials on top of one another in precise configurations. The new findings will help researchers understand how to better manipulate materials into light emitters with controllable quantum properties.
