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Tailoring the interlayer twist angle of bilayer graphene (BLG) has a significant influence on its electronic properties, including superconductivity, topological transitions, ferromagnetic states and correlated insulating states. These…

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

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

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) represents a highly tunable, strongly correlated electron system owed to its unique flat electronic bands. However, understanding the single-particle band structure alone has been challenging due to complex…

We report a systematic plasmonic study of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) - two graphene layers stacked with a twist angle. Through real-space nanoimaging of TBLG single crystals with a wide distribution of twist angles, we find that TBLG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Fengrui Hu , Suprem R Das , Yilong Luan , T. -F. Chung , Yong P. Chen , Zhe Fei

The electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) can be dramatically different from those of a single graphene layer, in particular when the two layers are rotated relative to each other by a small angle. TBG has recently…

We study the electronic and topological properties of fully relaxed twisted bilayer (TBG) and double bilayer (TDBG) graphene under perpendicular pressure. An approach has been proposed to obtain the equilibrium in-plane structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Xianqing Lin , Haotian Zhu , Jun Ni

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

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

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures with flat electronic bands have recently emerged as a platform for realizing correlated and topological states with an extraordinary degree of control and tunability. In graphene-based moir\'e…

Stacking two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides with nonzero interlayer twist angles has recently become attractive because of the emergence of novel physical properties. Stacking of…

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Twisted bilayer graphene displays many fascinating properties that can be tuned by varying the relative angle (also called twist angle) between its monolayers. As a remarkable feature, both the electronic flat bands and the corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 V. Hung Nguyen , Trinh X. Hoang , J. -C. Charlier

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has emerged as a promising platform to explore exotic electronic phases. However, the formation of moir\'e patterns in tBLG has thus far been confined to the introduction of twist angles between the layers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-10 Gabriel R. Schleder , Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near "magic angles" has emerged as a rich platform for strongly correlated states of two-dimensional Dirac semimetals. Here we show that twisted bilayers of thin-film magnetic topological insulators (MTI) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gaurav Chaudhary , Anton A. Burkov , Olle G. Heinonen

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 study the atomic structure of twisted bilayer graphene, with very small mismatch angles ($\theta \sim 0.28^0$), a topic of intense recent interest. We use simulations, in which we combine a recently presented semi-empirical potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Sandeep K. Jain , Vladimir Juricic , Gerard T. Barkema

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) near the magic twist angle of $\sim1.1^{o}$ exhibits a rich phase diagram. However, the interplay between different phases and their dependence on twist angle is still elusive. Here, we explore the stability…

The presence of interlayer interactions in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) enhances several characteristics, including the optical and electrical properties. We theoretically investigate the magic angle of TBG according to the vanishing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Yong-Mei Zhang , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang