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An interlayer distance modulation in twisted bilayer graphene is reported. This is achieved by an in-situ annealing technique. The transformation of systematic vacuum and hydrogen annealing effects in twisted bilayer CVD graphene on SiO2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Jothiramalingam Kulothungan , Manoharan Muruganathan , Hiroshi Mizuta

We theoretically calculate the interaction-induced frictional Coulomb drag resistivity between two graphene monolayers as well as between two graphene bilayers, which are spatially separated by a distance "$d$". We show that the drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-23 E. H. Hwang , Rajdeep Sensarma , S. Das Sarma

Graphene, as an atomic-thick ultrasoft membrane, almost has no resistance against out-of-plane deformations and, therefore, it is always wrinkled to a certain degree. Recently, corrugated structures and their effects on the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Si-Yu Li , Hua Jiang , Jiao-Jiao Zhou , Haiwen Liu , Fan Zhang , Lin He

This article reviews the theoretical and experimental work related to the electronic properties of bilayer graphene systems. Three types of bilayer stackings are discussed: the AA, AB, and twisted bilayer graphene. This review covers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov , Franco Nori

So far the physics of moir\'e graphene bilayers at large, incommensurate rotation angles has been considered uninteresting. It has been held that the interlayer coupling in such structures is weak and the system can be thought of as a pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hridis K. Pal , Stephen Spitz , Markus Kindermann

Rotated graphene multilayers form a new class of graphene related systems with electronic properties that drastically depend on the rotation angles. It has been shown that bilayers behave like two isolated graphene planes for large rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 G. Trambly de Laissardière , D. Mayou , L. Magaud

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

Pristine bilayer graphene behaves in some instances as an insulator with a transport gap of a few meV. This behaviour has been interpreted as the result of an intrinsic electronic instability induced by many-body correlations. Intriguingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 P. San-Jose , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov , F. Guinea

Stacking order has strong influence on the coupling between the two layers of twisted bilayer graphene (BLG), which in turn determines its physical properties. Here, we report the investigation of the interlayer coupling of the epitaxially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Bing Deng , Binbin Wang , Ning Li , Rongtan Li , Yani Wang , Jilin Tang , Qiang Fu , Zhen Tian , Peng Gao , Jiamin Xue , Hailin Peng

Layered materials such as graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides have extremely anisotropic mechanical properties owing to orders of magnitude difference between in-plane and out-of-plane interatomic interaction strengths. Although…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-10 Jae-Ung Lee , Sungjong Woo , Jaesung Park , Hee Chul Park , Young-Woo Son , Hyeonsik Cheong

By using the first-principles method based on density of functional theory, we study the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene with some specific twist angles and interlayer spacings. With the decrease of the twist angle(the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Xun-Wang Yan , Jing Li , Yanyun Wang , Miao Gao

Large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) is known to be electronically decoupled due to the spatial separation of the Dirac cones corresponding to individual graphene layers in the reciprocal space. The close spacing between the layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Peter Rickhaus , Giulia Zheng , Klaus Richter , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Ming-Hao Liu

We investigate the electronic density redistribution of rotated bilayer graphene under a perpendicular electric field, showing that the layers are actually coupled even for large angles. This layer-layer coupling is evidenced by the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 E. Suárez Morell , P. Vargas , L. Chico , L. Brey

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

Crystallographic alignment between two-dimensional crystals in van der Waals heterostructures brought a number of profound physical phenomena, including observation of Hofstadter butterfly and topological currents, and promising novel…

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

We investigate the effects of lithium intercalation in twisted bilayers of graphene, using first-principles electronic structure calculations. To model this system we employ commensurate supercells that correspond to twist angles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Daniel T. Larson , Stephen Carr , Georgios A. Tritsaris , Efthimios Kaxiras

We investigate magnetism and band structure engineering in Moir\'e superlattice of blue phosphorus ($\beta$-P) and grey arsenene ($\beta$-As) bilayers, using \textit{ab initio} calculations. The electronic states near the valence and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-20 Shantanu Agnihotri , Maneesh Kumar , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Amit Agarwal , Somnath Bhowmick

We present a general theoretical formulation to describe the interlayer interaction in incommensurate bilayer systems with arbitrary crystal structures. By starting from the tight- binding model with the distance-dependent transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mikito Koshino