{"id":3925624,"date":"2026-04-24T05:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-electron-structure-affects-light-responses-in-moire-materials\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:04:01","slug":"how-electron-structure-affects-light-responses-in-moire-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-electron-structure-affects-light-responses-in-moire-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"How electron structure affects light responses in moir\u00e9 materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In materials science, if you can understand the &#8220;texture&#8221; of a material\u2014how its internal patterns form and shift\u2014you can begin to design how it behaves. That&#8217;s the focus of the work of Zhenglu Li, assistant professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Li&#8217;s recently published paper in PNAS, titled &#8220;Moir\u00e9 excitons in generalized Wigner crystals,&#8221; demonstrates that the way electrons organize themselves inside a material determines how that material responds to light\u2014and how this organization can be engineered.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-electron-affects-responses-moir-materials.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In materials science, if you can understand the &#8220;texture&#8221; of a material\u2014how its internal patterns form and shift\u2014you can begin to design how it behaves. That&#8217;s the focus of the work of Zhenglu Li, assistant professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Li&#8217;s recently [&#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-3925624","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\/3925624","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=3925624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}