Scientists in China have successfully fabricated atomically thin 2D metal sheets of bismuth, gallium, tin, and lead using a novel high-pressure technique.
2D metals are ultra-thin layers of metal atoms, usually just 1–2 atoms thick.
According to the team, the bismuth sheet was just 6.3 Å thick.
Both the strong field effect and the nonlinear Hall effect occur in 2D metals, not in 3D metals.