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“Magic-Angle” Graphene Uses Faint Light to Transform an Insulator Into a Metal, Revealing a New Way to Make the Unseen Visible
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The Debrief
Under the right conditions, interactions between electrons can cause magic-angle graphene to enter exotic collective states, including superconducting and insulating phases.
Magic-angle graphene offers another route.
Their experimental device consisted of magic-angle graphene sandwiched between layers of hexagonal boron nitride and configured as a field-effect transistor.
A graphite back gate allowed them to precisely control the number of charge carriers and tune the graphene into its correlated insulating state.
The effect currently requires ultra-low temperatures, and the unusually strong response depends upon generating high-quality magic-angle graphene structures.