A different twist: A schematic diagram showing how the method ... This is because the lattice constant of hBN – a measure of how its atoms are arranged – is nearly the same as that of graphene, but ...

(a) Schematic diagram of graphene based opto-thermoelectric tweezers ... only using a non-focused plane-wave light beam to generate discrete hotspots on the graphene lattice (Fig. 3a-b). The plane ...

A superconducting circuit optomechanical graphene lattice. (Image: Andrea Bancora, EPFL) The key element, which is a part of the single site of the lattice, is a so-called “vacuum-gap drumhead ...

Imagine stacking two sheets of graphene—the 2D form of graphite, or the pencil at your hand—in which the carbon atoms form a hexagonal lattice and ... the phase diagram of a model with a ...

Kippenberg at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have now built the first large-scale and configurable superconducting circuit optomechanical ... strained graphene lattice and studied non-trivial ...