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Penn State facility enables development of new ultra-thin materials for advanced electronics
Roman Herbert-Engel, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, characterizes chalcogenide thin films with a graduate student in a Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium lab in 2017.
Image: Penn State MRI
NSF renews funding for Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium
May 25, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a renewal of funding for the Materials Innovation Platform (MIP) national user facility at Penn State’s Materials Research Institute (MRI), the Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium (2DCC). The 2DCC is one of four MIPs in the United States and was awarded $20.1 million over five years, an increase of 13% above the initial award in 2016.
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IMAGE: A team of researchers from Penn State has experimentally demonstrated a quantum phenomenon called the high Chern number quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. They stacked alternating layers of magnetic and. view more
Credit: Zhao et al., Nature
New energy-efficient electronic devices may be possible thanks to research that demonstrates the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect where an electrical current does not lose energy as it flows along the edges of the material over a broader range of conditions. A team of researchers from Penn State has experimentally realized the QAH effect in a multilayered insulator, essentially producing a multilane highway for the transport of electrons that could increase the speed and efficiency of information transfer without energy loss.