How to Use bilayer in a Sentence
bilayer
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At its core is bilayer graphene, sandwiched between layers of hexagonal boron nitride.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
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Typically in bilayer graphene, the electrons (or cars) could travel freely between the blue and red valleys.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Aug. 2016
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Its bilayer design features an active layer that changes shape and color and a passive layer that provides stiffness and optical transparency.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
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In the last step, Bie and his colleagues paired the bilayer MoTe2 p-n junction and a silicon photonic crystal waveguide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2017
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Svinstov says that an approach to growing the graphene bilayer directly on boron nitride substrates would need to be used and that sub-10-nanometer gaps between metal gates would need to be fabricated.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
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According to Cutiss, long-term clinical data shows that the bilayer graft safely closes wounds, reduces the need for additional donor skin and improves scar quality compared with current standard care.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
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The research team reengineered the chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique by introducing a liquid gold/tungsten bilayer as the substrate.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
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Researchers at the Penn State Materials Research Institute have fabricated a device made from bilayer graphene that is able to control the momentum of electrons.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Aug. 2016
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In research described in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the Penn State team was able to direct the electrons by placing a pair of gates above and below the bilayer graphene sheet and then applying an electrical field perpendicular to the plane.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Aug. 2016
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In research described in the journal Scientific Reports, the MIPT researchers developed a computer model of just such a tunnel transistor fabricated from bilayer graphene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
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These bilayers were covalently bonded via secondary UV curing, ensuring strong interfacial adhesion and stability over 100 actuation cycles.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
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Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have proposed a new tunnel transistor based on bilayer graphene that could reduce its power consumption, allowing a significant increase in processors’ clock speeds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2016
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