{"id":3925565,"date":"2026-04-19T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/theres-a-range-of-magic-angles-to-study-superconductivity-in-a-twisted-2d-semiconductor\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T12:02:19","slug":"theres-a-range-of-magic-angles-to-study-superconductivity-in-a-twisted-2d-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/theres-a-range-of-magic-angles-to-study-superconductivity-in-a-twisted-2d-semiconductor\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a range of magic angles to study superconductivity in a twisted 2D semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, tungsten diselenide (WSe2) had its magic moment. Two independent research groups discovered &#8220;magic angles&#8221; at which two atom-thin layers of the unique semiconductor, when twisted relative to one another into what&#8217;s known as a moire pattern, can superconduct electricity. Cory Dean and his colleagues at Columbia documented superconductivity at a 5\u00b0 twist angle; upstate at Cornell, Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak&#8217;s team saw it at around 3.5\u00b0. Until then, graphene was the only other moire material capable of the feat.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-range-magic-angles-superconductivity-2d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, tungsten diselenide (WSe2) had its magic moment. Two independent research groups discovered &#8220;magic angles&#8221; at which two atom-thin layers of the unique semiconductor, when twisted relative to one another into what&#8217;s known as a moire pattern, can superconduct electricity. Cory Dean and his colleagues at Columbia documented superconductivity at a 5\u00b0 twist angle; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}