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Rice University

detwinning FeSe

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Former Rice graduate student Tong Chen ‘21, "detwinning" iron selenide crystals in 2019. Several dozen fragile sheets of iron selenide had to be painstakingly aligned, stacked and glued in place atop another iron-based superconductor, barium iron arsenide.

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