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Rhombohedral-stacked few-layer graphene (FLG) has been receiving an ever-increasing attention owing to its peculiar electronic properties that could lead to enticing phenomena such as superconductivity and magnetic ordering. Up to now,…

Graphene layers grown by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method and transferred from Cu-foils to the oxidized Si-substrates were investigated by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), Raman and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) methods. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-23 Aarne Kasikov , Tauno Kahro , Leonard Matisen , Margus Kodu , Aivar Tarre , Helina Seemen , Harry Alles

Results of a study on the electrochemical properties of exfoliated single and multilayer graphene flakes are presented. Graphene flakes were deposited on silicon/silicon oxide wafers to enable fast and accurate characterization by optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Anna T. Valota , Ian A. Kinloch , Kostya S. Novoselov , Cinzia Casiraghi , Axel Eckmann , Ernie W. Hill , Robert A. W. Dryfe

Twisted multilayer moir\'e materials are generically quasiperiodic on the moir\'e scale due to the interference of different misaligned moir\'e periodicities. Spatial inhomogeneities such as these can be detrimental to superconductivity;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xinghai Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Justin H. Wilson , Matthew S. Foster

Twisted bilayer graphene has recently attracted a lot of attention for its rich electronic properties and tunability. Here we show that for very small twist angles, $\alpha \ll 1^\circ$, the application of a perpendicular electric field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 A. Ramires , J. L. Lado

We study the electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), which was recently experimentally observed to exhibit superconductivity around the magic twist angle $\theta\approx 1.05^\circ$. We show that phonon-mediated electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Biao Lian , Zhijun Wang , B. Andrei Bernevig

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures provide a platform for studying a wide range of electron correlation phenomena, including unconventional superconductivity and correlated insulating states. However, fabricating such devices is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Jiho Kim , Boknam Chae , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

The discovery of correlated states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has established moir\'e quantum matter as a new platform to explore interaction-driven and topological quantum phenomena. Multitudes of…

Bi-layer graphene (BLG) can be a cheaper and more stable alternative to graphene in several applications. With its mechanical strength being almost equivalent to graphene, BLG also brings advanced electronic and optical properties to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Nil Dhankecha , Vidushi Sharma , Dibakar Datta

Bilayer graphene twisted at the angle of about 1.1{\deg} better known as magic angle, exhibits ultra-flat moir\'e superlattice bands that are a source of highly-tunable, exotic quantum phenomena. Such phenomena, like superconductivity,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-05 Giovanna Feraco , Wissem Boubaker , Petra Rudolf , Antonija Grubišić-Čabo

Electron-electron interactions play an important role in graphene and related systems and can induce exotic quantum states, especially in a stacked bilayer with a small twist angle. For bilayer graphene where the two layers are twisted by a…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) develops large moir\'e patterns at small twist angles with flat energy bands hosting domes of superconductivity. The large system size and intricate band structure have however hampered investigations into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-19 Tomas Löthman , Johann Schmidt , Fariborz Parhizgar , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 S. S. Sunku , G. X. Ni , B. -Y. Jiang , H. Yoo , A. Sternbach , A. S. McLeod , T. Stauber , L. Xiong , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Kim , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

We report a combined nano-photocurrent and infrared nanoscopy study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) enabling access to the local electronic phenomena at length scales as short as 20 nm. We show that the photocurrent changes sign at…

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images are obtained for the first time on few layer and twisted multilayer epitaxial graphene states synthesized on n+ 6H-SiC a-plane non-polar surface. The twisted graphene is determined to have a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Xu , M. L. Ackerman , S. D. Barber , J. K. Schoelz , P. M. Thibado , V. D. Wheeler , L. O. Nyakiti , R. L. Myers-Ward , C. R. Eddy , D. K. Gaskill

We employ dual-gated 30{\deg}-twisted bilayer graphene to demonstrate simultaneous ultra-high mobility and conductivity (up to 40 mS at room temperature), unattainable in a single-layer of graphene. We find quantitative agreement with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Giulia Piccinini , Vaidotas Mišeikis , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Camilla Coletti , Sergio Pezzini

The electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) structures can be substantially modified by the moire superlattice potential, which strongly depends on the twist angle among the compounds. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), two low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu Zhang , Yi-Wen Liu , Lin He

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG), chiral tunneling can be tuned by parameters such as the twist angle, barrier height, and Fermi energy. This differs from the tunneling behavior observed in monolayer and Bernal bilayer graphene, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Nadia Benlakhouy , El Mustapha Feddi , Abdelouahed El Fatimy

Selective sensing of chiral molecules is a key aspect in fields spanning biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. However, conventional optical methods, such as circular dichroism (CD), encounter limitations owing to weak chiral light-matter…