For the first time, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of technology have recorded the dissemination of combined sound and light waves in single-layered materials.
The experiments, according to a Newswise report, were executed in the Robert and Ruth Magid Electron Beam Quantum Dynamics Laboratory, headed by Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Solid State Institute's Professor Ido Kaminer.
Alternatively known as 2D materials, single-layer materials, are in themselves novel materials, solids that consist of a single layer of atoms.
The first-ever 2-D material discovered known as Graphene was isolated in 2004, for the first time, an achievement that gained the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Now, as mentioned, for the first time, Technion scientists exhibit how pulses of light are moving inside such materials. Their findings from the study, Spatiotemporal Imaging of 2D Polariton Wavepacket Dynamics Using Free Electrons, were published in Science following huge interest by a lot of researchers.
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