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It is shown on the examples of Moore and Gosper curves that two spatially shifted or twisted, pre-asymptotic space-filling curves can produce large-scale superstructures akin to moir\'e patterns. To study physical phenomena emerging from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Henning U. Voss , Douglas J. Ballon

We develop a diagrammatic perturbation theory to account for the emergence of moir\'e bands in the continuum model of twisted bilayer graphene. Our framework is build upon treating the moir\'e potential as a perturbation that transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Federico Escudero

We have used Ultrahigh Vacuum (UHV) Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to investigate the effect of thermal annealing of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) on a Cu(110) foil. We show that the annealing appears to induce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-24 Colm Durkan

Graphene adsorption on Au(111) surface was explored to identify their common surface structures by means of van der Waals corrected density functional theory calculations. The alignment of graphene in the form of certain rotational angles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Merve Yortanlı , Ersen Mete

Recently, a moir\'e material has been proposed in which multiple domains of different topological phases appear in the moir\'e unit cell due to a large moir\'e modulation. Topological properties of such moir\'e materials may differ from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

Two-dimensional (2D) materials naturally form moir\'{e} patterns with other crystalline layers, such as other 2D material or the surface of a substrate. These patterns add a nanoscale characteristic length in the form of a superlattice: the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Nicolas Rougemaille , Johann Coraux

Chemical, mechanical, thermal and/or electronic properties of bulk or low-dimensional materials can be engineered by introducing structural defects to form novel functionalities. When using particles irradiation, these defects can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-07 L. Basta , A. Moscardini , S. Veronesi , F. Bianco

The atomic and electronic structures of a graphene layer on top of the $(2\times2)$ reconstruction of the SiC (000$\bar{1}$) surface are studied from ab initio calculations. At variance with the (0001) face, no C bufferlayer is found here.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Magaud , F. Hiebel , F. Varchon , P. Mallet , J. -Y. Veuillen

We examine the stacking order of multilayer graphene grown on the SiC$(000\bar{1})$ surface using low-energy electron diffraction and surface X-ray diffraction. We show that the films contain a high density of rotational stacking faults…

While a typical material exhibits field induced currents only at the boundary, a uniform out-of-plane magnetic field applied to two mutually rotated layers of graphene is shown to result in an ordered array of permanent current loops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , W. Landgraf , S. Leitherer , O. Pankratov , S. Sharma , V. Meded , S. Shallcross

In stacks of two-dimensional crystals, mismatch of their lattice constants and misalignment of crystallographic axes lead to formation of moir\'{e} patterns. We show that moir\'{e} superlattice effects persist in twisted bilayer graphene…

Superperiodic patterns near a step edge were observed by STM on several-layer-thick graphite sheets on a highly oriented pyrolitic graphite substrate, where a dislocation network is generated at the interface between the graphite overlayer…

Turbostratic multilayer graphene, composed of randomly twisted and stacked graphene sheets, offers a naturally disordered yet tunable platform for exploring moir\'e physics beyond tedious artificial stacking. Using scanning tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Mona Garg , Ankit Kumar , Deepti Rana , Anmol Arya , Aswini R , Umesh Waghmare , G. U. Kulkarni , Goutam Sheet

The Moir\'e patterns generated by altering the structural parameters in a two or more layers of periodic materials, including single-layer structure, interlayer stacking, and twisting parameters, exhibit prosperous topological physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Peng Peng , Yuchen Peng , Aoqian Shi , Xiaogen Yi , Yizhou Wei , Jianjun Liu

Using in situ low-energy electron microscopy and density functional theory, we studied the growth structure and work function of bilayer graphene on Pd(111). Low-energy electron diffraction analysis established that the two graphene layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-29 Y. Murata , S. Nie , A. Ebnonnasir , E. Starodub , B. B. Kappes , K. F. McCarty , C. V. Ciobanu , S. Kodambaka

Moir\'e superlattices are generally assumed to act only at the interface where lattice mismatch or twist occurs. Here, we study charge transport in large-angle helical twisted trilayer graphene, where interlayer tunneling is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Dohun Kim , Junsik Choe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Rhombohedral graphene (rG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been shown to host flat bands that stabilize various strongly correlated quantum phases, including Mott insulators, integer, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

We present an investigation of the atomic and electronic structure of graphene monolayer islands on the 6H-SiC(000-1)(3x3) (SiC(3x3)) surface reconstruction using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). The orientation…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-04 F. Hiebel , P. Mallet , L. Magaud , J. -Y. Veuillen

Twisted graphene layers exhibit extremely low friction for relative sliding. Nevertheless, previous studies suggest that the area contribution to friction for commensurate moir\'e systems is finite and might restrict macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Yulia G. Polynskaya , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Sergey A. Vyrko , Nikolai A. Poklonski

Experiments on graphene bilayers, where the top layer is rotated with respect to the one below, have displayed insulating behavior when the moir\'e bands are partially filled. We calculate the charge distributions in these phases, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-15 Ipsita Mandal , Jia Yao , Erich J. Mueller