New technique shows promise for mass fabricating quasi-1D van der Waals zirconium pentatelluride thin film

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-technique-mass-fabricating-exotic-quasi.html

"unique structure's quantum effects producing unusual electrical, optical, mechanical properties... van der Waals forces between 1D chains arrange them into stackable 2D sheets... Dirac and Weyl semimetal's electrons behave as have 0 mass enabling even more exotic optics/ magnetics... physical vapor deposition (sputtering) via RF magnetron, achieving large-scale growth of quasi-1D zirconium pentatelluride... crystallizes upon heat treatment in an argon atmosphere... quantum computing, nano-electronics, spintronics"