This is truly exotic work. Read it carefully. As electrons are moved around to significant new locations the linkage between electrons are 'stressed' and this stress is expressed as magnetism. This is an important insight that helps in our own efforts.
It strongly informs us that linkages do exist between electrons which is predicted by my own work but never confirmed until now. Note that my work is based on the idea of resonance links along axis between electrons which will be naturally persistent with movement.
All good and certain to be very useful.
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Three layers of graphene reveals a new kind of magnet
- Date:
- February 23, 2017
- Source:
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Summary:
- Scientists have discovered the magnetism of electrons in three layers of graphene. This study reveals a new kind of magnet and provides insight on how electronic devices using graphene could be made for fundamental studies as well as various applications.
This is a spectrum of the three layer graphene as a function of magnetic field and density of electrons.
Credit: Biswajit Datta, Mandar Deshmukh
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170223114729.htm
Metals have a large density of
electrons and to be able to see the wave nature of electrons one has to
make metallic wires that are only a few atoms wide. However, in graphene
-- one atom thick graphite -- the density of electrons is much smaller
and can be changed by making a transistor. As a result of the low
density of electrons the wave nature of electrons, as described by
quantum mechanics, is easier to observe in graphene.
Often in metals like copper the electron is scattered every 100
nanometers, a distance roughly 1000 times smaller than the diameter of
human hair, due to impurities and imperfections. Electrons can travel
much longer in graphene, up to distances of 10 micrometer, a distance
roughly 10 times smaller than the diameter of human hair. This is
realized by sandwiching graphene between layers of boron nitride. The
layers of boron nitride have few imperfections to impede the flow of
electrons in graphene.
Once electrons travel long distances, implying there are few imperfections, one notices the faint whispers of electrons "talking to each other." Reducing the imperfections is akin to making a room quiet to enable the faint whispers of electronic interactions to develop between many electrons.
In a study, led by PhD student Biswajit Datta, Professor Mandar Deshmukh's group at TIFR realized just this kind of silence allowing electronic interactions to be observed in three layers of graphene. The study reveals a new kind of magnet and provides insight on how electronic devices using graphene could be made for fundamental studies as well as applications. This work discovers the magnetism of electrons in three layers of graphene at a low temperature of -272 Celsius. The magnetism of electrons arises from the coordinated "whispers" between many electrons.
Once electrons travel long distances, implying there are few imperfections, one notices the faint whispers of electrons "talking to each other." Reducing the imperfections is akin to making a room quiet to enable the faint whispers of electronic interactions to develop between many electrons.
In a study, led by PhD student Biswajit Datta, Professor Mandar Deshmukh's group at TIFR realized just this kind of silence allowing electronic interactions to be observed in three layers of graphene. The study reveals a new kind of magnet and provides insight on how electronic devices using graphene could be made for fundamental studies as well as applications. This work discovers the magnetism of electrons in three layers of graphene at a low temperature of -272 Celsius. The magnetism of electrons arises from the coordinated "whispers" between many electrons.
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Journal Reference:
- Biswajit Datta, Santanu Dey, Abhisek Samanta, Hitesh Agarwal, Abhinandan Borah, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Rajdeep Sensarma, Mandar M. Deshmukh. Strong electronic interaction and multiple quantum Hall ferromagnetic phases in trilayer graphene. Nature Communications, 2017; 8: 14518 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14518
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