Like wrinkles in plastic wrap

Others have jumped at the chance to observe and measure magic-angle graphene since Jarillo-Herrero and his team first discovered it.

STM, a method that scans a surface at the atomic level, has been used by several groups to image magic-angle structures.However, this method has only been utilized by researchers to scan a few hundred square nanometer-sized patches of magic-angle graphene.

According to Jarillo-Herrero, “STM is not best suited for looking at millions of atoms over an entire micron-scale structure.”It could be done in principle, but it would take a lot of time.