Physicists find misaligned carbon sheets yield unparalleled properties

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(Funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense)

Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have described how the ability of twisted bilayer graphene to conduct electrical current changes in response to mid-infrared light. When the graphene layers are misaligned, a new periodic design in the mesh emerges, so the scientists determined how mid-infrared light affected the conductance of electrons in this new periodic design.