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Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) forms a quasicrystal whose structural and electronic properties depend on the angle of rotation between its layers. Here we present a scanning tunneling microscopy study of gate-tunable tBLG devices supported…

We investigate the mesoscopic transport through a twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) consisting of a clean graphene nanoribbon on the bottom and a disordered graphene disc on the top. We show that, with strong top-layer disorder the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Zhe Hou , Ya-Yun Hu , Guang-Wen Yang

Low-energy moir\'e flat bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) have demonstrated incredible potentials to exhibit rich exotic quantum phenomena. Theoretically, the moir\'e flat bands of tBG are based on the extended structures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Long-Jing Yin , Ling-Hui Tong , Yue-Ying Zhou , Yang Zhang , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to resolve the spatial variation of the density of states of twisted graphene layers on top of a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate. Owing to the twist a moire pattern…

The effect of an hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer close aligned with twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is studied. At sufficiently low angles between twisted bilayer graphene and hBN, $\theta_{hBN} \lesssim 2^\circ$, the graphene electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) has recently emerged as a platform for hosting correlated phenomena, owing to the exceptionally flat band dispersion that results near interlayer twist angle $\theta\approx1.1^\circ$. At low temperature a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-03 H. Polshyn , M. Yankowitz , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. R. Dean , A. F. Young

Identifying the microscopic processes that limit conductivity is essential for understanding correlated and quantum-critical states in quantum materials. In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and other twist-controlled materials, the…

We investigated the utility of free-standing graphene as a transparent sample carrier for imaging nanometer-sized objects by means of low-energy electron holography. The sample preparation for obtaining contamination-free graphene as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink

Nanoscale twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is quite instable and will change its structure to Bernal (or AB-stacking) bilayer with a much lower energy. Therefore, the lack of nanoscale TBG makes its electronic properties not accessible in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Wen-Xiao Wang , Hua Jiang , Yu Zhang , Si-Yu Li , Haiwen Liu , Xinqi Li , Xiaosong Wu , Lin He

We present a simple and fast method for thickness characterization of suspended graphene flakes that is based on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. For this method, the dynamical theory of electron diffraction (Bloch-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-09 Sultan Akhtar , Stefano Rubino , Klaus Leifer

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) devices, local strains frequently coexist and intertwine with the twist-angle-dependent moir\'e superlattice, significantly influencing the electronic properties of TBG, yet their combined effects remain…

We report on observation of the infrared photoresistance of twisted bilayer graphene under continuous quantum cascade laser illumination at a frequency of 57.1 THz. The photoresistance shows an intricate sign-alternating behavior under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 S. Hubmann , G. Di Battista , I. A. Dmitriev , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. K. Efetov , S. D. Ganichev

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

The electronic bands of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) with a large-period moir\'e superlattice fracture to form narrow Bloch minibands that are spectrally isolated by forbidden energy gaps from remote dispersive bands. When these gaps are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

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

Moir\'e superlattices created by the twisted stacking of two-dimensional crystalline monolayers can host electronic bands with flat energy dispersion in which interaction among electrons is strongly enhanced. These superlattices can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Xiaomeng Liu , Cheng-Li Chiu , Jong Yeon Lee , Gelareh Farahi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ali Yazdani

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 a theoretical study of the local optical conductivity, plasmon spectra, and thermoelectric properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) at different filling factors and twist angles $\theta$. Our calculations are based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pietro Novelli , Iacopo Torre , Frank H. L. Koppens , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini

Angle disorder is an intrinsic feature of twisted bilayer graphene and other moir\'e materials. Here, we discuss electron transport in twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of angle disorder. We compute the local density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea