Researchers from Florida State University, the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, and Wuhan University have revealed how various physical manipulations of graphene, such as layering and twisting, impact its optical properties and conductivity. The researchers found that the optical conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene is not heavily impacted by such manipulations and instead depends more on how the material's geometry structure changes by interlayer twisting. To conduct the study, the team captured images of plasmons – tiny waves of energy that happen when electrons in a material move together – that appeared in various regions of the twisted bilayer graphene.
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