MEGA2D: World's first micromachine twists 2D quantum materials at will

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-world-micromachine-2d-materials.html

"microelectromechanical nonlinear optical fingernail-sized, on-chip... enables light output with tunable polarization, including circular carrying angular momentum... swirls appeared when 2 hexagonal boron nitride pieces twisted, resembling half-skyrmion topological quasiparticles... tunable light source for standard light bulbs, as well as for converting blue to red light in quantum computing.. twisted graphene/ other van der Waals materials, twistronics... future: hybrid 2D/ 3D structures for condensed-matter physics"

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