Technique Measures Temperature of 2D Materials at the Atomic Level

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  • TBMG-28869
Published May 01, 2018 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Newly developed two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene — which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms — have the potential to replace traditional microprocessing chips based on silicon, which have reached the limit of how small they can get. But engineers have been stymied by the inability to measure how temperature will affect these new materials, collectively known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).