Room temperature electrical control could heat up future technology development

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By Ashley WennersHerron

An old physical phenomenon, known as the Hall effect, has revealed some new tricks, according to a team co-led by researchers at Penn State and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). They reported their findings, which they said have potential implications for understanding fundamental physics of quantum materials and developing applied technologies such as quantum communication and harvesting energy via radio frequencies, this week (Oct. 21) in Nature Materials.

Growing tomorrow’s semiconductor chips in the materials garden

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In some ways, Mauricio Terrones is a gardener. An Evan Pugh University Professor and The Penn State Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Terrones does not grow flowers or vegetables, but instead, one- or few-atom-thick two-dimensional (2D) materials. Specifically, creating materials with specific properties. The first 2D material ever created was graphene, and Terrones was a pioneer in developing 2D materials beyond graphene such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and Tungsten disulfide (WS2). These are layered 2D materials, monolayered, bi-layered, tri-layered or more.

Timothy Brick

Timothy Brick

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Jun Zhu

Jun Zhu

Professor of Physics

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David Weiss

Distinguished Professor of Physics Associate Head for Research

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Jorge Sofo

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Nitin Samarth

Nitin Samarth

Associate Director 2DCC-MIP, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics & Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering

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Marcos Rigol

Marcos Rigol

Professor of Physics

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