{"id":674954,"date":"2020-12-04T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674954"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:11:18","slug":"electrons-falling-flat-germanium-falls-into-a-2-d-arrangement-on-zirconium-diboride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674954","title":{"rendered":"Electrons falling flat: Germanium falls into a 2-D arrangement on zirconium diboride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently revealed, both theoretically and experimentally, that germanium atoms can arrange themselves into a 2-D &#8220;bi-triangular&#8221; lattice on zirconium diboride thin films grown on germanium single crystals to form a &#8220;flat band material&#8221; with an embedded &#8220;kagome&#8221; lattice. The result provides experimental support to a theoretical prediction of flat bands emerging from trivial atomic geometry and indicates the possibility of their existence in many more materials.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-electrons-falling-flat-germanium-falls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Electrons falling flat: Germanium falls into a 2-D arrangement on zirconium diboride<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have recently revealed, both theoretically and experimentally, that germanium atoms can arrange themselves into a 2-D &#8220;bi-triangular&#8221; lattice on zirconium diboride thin films grown on germanium single crystals to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}