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Van der Waals materials composed of stacks of individual atomic layers have attracted considerable attention due to their exotic electronic properties that can be altered by, for example, manipulating the twist angle of bilayer materials or…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-14 Michael J Zachman , Jacob Madsen , Xiang Zhang , Pulickel M Ajayan , Toma Susi , Miaofang Chi

Twisted multilayer systems, encompassing materials like twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), twisted trilayer graphene, and twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, have garnered significant attention in condensed matter physics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Citian Wang , Huaqing Huang

Molecular-scale manipulation of electronic/ionic charge accumulation in materials is a preeminent challenge, particularly in electrochemical energy storage. Layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals exemplify a diverse family of materials that…

The charge, spin, and composition degrees of freedom in high-entropy alloy endow it with tunable valence and spin states, infinite combinations and excellent mechanical performance. Meanwhile, the stacking, interlayer, and angle degrees of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-14 Tianping Ying , Tongxu Yu , Yu-Shien Shiah , Changhua Li , Jiang Li , Yanpeng Qi , Hideo Hosono

Quantum sensing of meV-scale scattering and absorption of impinging particles with electrons in solid state detectors is a challenging technological advancement with the potential to enable breakthroughs in quantum information applications…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Elizabeth A. Peterson

The interlayer coupling can be used to engineer the electronic structure of van der Waals heterostructures (superlattices) to obtain properties that are not possible in a single material. So far research in heterostructures has been focused…

Fabrication of custom-built heterostructures based on stacked 2D materials provides an effective method to controllably tune electronic and optical properties. To that end, optimizing fabrication techniques for building these…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-16 Adina Luican-Mayer , Justin Boddison-Chouinard , Samantha Scarfe , K. Watanabe , T Taniguchi

Atomically thin layered van der Waals heterostructures feature exotic and emergent optoelectronic properties. With growing interest in these novel quantum materials, the microscopic understanding of fundamental interfacial coupling…

To fully exploit van der Waals materials and heterostructures, new mass-scalable production routes that are low cost but preserve the high electronic and optical quality of the single crystals are required. Here, we demonstrate an approach…

The successful assembly of heterostructures consisting of several layers of different 2D materials in arbitrary order by exploiting van der Waals forces has truly been a game changer in the field of low dimensional physics. For instance,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-17 Youngwook Kim , Patrick Herlinger , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Jurgen H. Smet

Twisted vdW quantum materials have emerged as a rapidly developing field of 2D semiconductors. These materials establish a new central research area and provide a promising platform for studying quantum phenomena and investigating the…

Semiconducting two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures gained a lot of interest for applications as well as fundamental studies due to their rich optical properties. Assembly in van der Waals heterostacks can significantly…

Combining atomically-thin van der Waals materials into heterostructures provides a powerful path towards the creation of designer electronic devices. The interaction strength between neighboring layers, most easily controlled through their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Matthew Yankowitz , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Pablo San-Jose , Brian J. LeRoy

Stacking and twisting van der Waals materials provide a powerful tool to design quantum matter and engineer electron correlation. For instance, monolayers of 1T- and 1H-TaS2 are Mott insulating and metallic (also superconducting),…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Hyeonhu Bae , Roser Valenti , Igor I. Mazin , Binghai Yan

Throughout the years, strongly correlated coherent states of excitons have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental studies. This topic has recently boomed due to new emerging quantum materials such as van der Waals (vdW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Igor V. Bondarev , Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik

Strongly bound excitons and many-body interactions between them determine light-matter interactions in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of 2D semiconductors. Unlike fundamental particles, quasiparticles in condensed matter, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Weijie Li , Zach Hadjri , Jin Zhang , Luka M. Devenica , Song Liu , James Hone , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Angel Rubio , Ajit Srivastava

Van der Waals heterostructures formed by stacking of various two-dimensional materials are promising in electronic applications. However, the performances of most reported electronic devices based on van der Waals heterostructures are far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Wei Li , Xiang Xiao , Huilong Xu

From atomic crystals to macroscopic material structures, twisted bilayer systems have emerged as a promising route to control wave phenomena. In few-layer van der Waals (vdW) materials, however, the intrinsically weak interlayer coupling…

Graphene/MoS$_2$ van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have promising technological applications due to their unique properties and functionalities. Many experimental and theoretical research groups across the globe have made outstanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Sobhit Singh , Camilo Espejo , Aldo H. Romero

Van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin layers with rotational misalignments, such as twisted bilayer graphene, feature interesting structural moir\'e superlattices. Due to the quantum coupling between the twisted atomic layers,…