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SMART Breakthrough in Materials Discovery Enables ‘Twistronics’ for Bulk Systems Written by AZoNanoApr 22 2021 Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new way to control light emission from materials. SMART research...

Date Time SMART breakthrough in materials discovery enables twistronics for bulk systems The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new way to control light emitting from materials Recent discoveries focused on manipulation of atomically-thin 2D materials, while the new breakthrough can be used to stack technologically-relevant 3D materials at a twist angle Method allows continuous, systematic control of optical emission intens...