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Motivated by the observation of polarization superlattices in twisted multilayers of hexagonal boron nitride ($h$-BN), we address the possibility of using these heterostructures for tailoring the properties of multilayer graphene by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Marta Brzezińska , Oleg V. Yazyev

Graphene-based moir\'{e} systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years as they display a remarkable variety of correlated phenomena. Besides insulating and superconducting phases in the vicinity of integer fillings of the…

Twisted trilayer graphene hosts two moir\'e superlattices originating from two interfaces between graphene layers. However, the system is generally unstable to lattice relaxation at small twist angles and is expected to show a significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Joonho Jang

We calculate the electronic structure in quasiperiodic double-moir\'e systems of graphene sandwiched by hexagonal boron nitride, and identify the topological invariants of energy gaps. We find that the electronic spectrum contains a number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Hiroki Oka , Mikito Koshino

We introduce trilayer and multilayer moir\'e heterostructures that cannot be viewed from the ``moir\'e-of-moir\'e" perspective of helically-twisted trilayer graphene. These ``intrinsically trilayer" moir\'e systems feature periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Aaron Dunbrack , Jennifer Cano

Heterostructures involving graphene and bismuth, with their ability to absorb light over a very wide energy range, are of interest for engineering next-generation opto-electronics. Critical to the technological application of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Ivan I. Naumov , Pratibha Dev

In this paper a systematic examination of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (g/hBN) bilayers is presented, through a recently developed two-dimensional phase field crystal model that incorporates out-of-plane deformations. The system…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-09 K. R. Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang , T. Ala-Nissila

We identify features in the angle-resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) arising from the periodic pattern characteristic for graphene heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). For this, we model ARPES spectra and intensity maps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. R. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko

In twisted bilayer graphene, long-wavelength lattice fluctuations on the scale of the moir\'e period are dominated by phason modes, i.e., acoustic branches of the incommensurate lattice resulting from coherent superpositions of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Héctor Ochoa

The work presents a study on the quantum theory of periodic graphs applied to mono- and bilayer hexagonal materials. Different parameters associated with the atoms present at the vertices of these materials were analyzed, verifying the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Osmar N. Souza

By using first-principles calculations, we investigated the effects of graphene/boron nitride (BN) encapsulation, surface functionalization by metallic elements (K, Al, Mg and typical transition metals) and molecules…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-17 Andrey A. Kistanov , Yongqing. Cai , Kun Zhou , Sergey V. Dmitriev , Yong-Wei Zhang

Fabrication of ordered structures at the nanoscale limit poses a cornerstone challenge for modern technologies. In this work we show how naturally occurring moir\'e patterns in Ir(111)-supported graphene template the formation of 2D ordered…

We report on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) observation of linear fringes together with spatially varying super-lattice structures on (0001) graphite (HOPG) surface. The structure, present in a region of a layer bounded by two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-11 S. K. Choudhary , A. K. Gupta

Spontaneous orbital magnetism observed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBG) on nearly aligned hexagonal boron nitride (BN) substrate builds on top of the electronic structure resulting from combined G/G and G/BN double moire interfaces. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jiseon Shin , Youngju Park , Bheema Lingam Chittari , Jeil Jung

Moire superlattices (MSLs) are an emerging class of two-dimensional functional materials whose electronic states can be tuned by the twist angle between two van der Waals layers and/or the relative placement of the layers. The intriguing…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 Rina Mishima , Takuro Nagai , Hiroyo Segawa , Masahiro Ehara , Takashi Uchino

Experiments on hexagonal graphene-like structures using microwave measuring techniques are presented. The lowest transverse-electric resonance of coupled dielectric disks sandwiched between two metallic plates establishes a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Barkhofen , M. Bellec , U. Kuhl , F. Mortessagne

A moire pattern is formed when two copies of a periodic pattern are overlaid with a relative twist. We address the electronic structure of a twisted two-layer graphene system, showing that in its continuum Dirac model the moire pattern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

By investigating the optoelectronic properties of prototypical graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) heterostructures, we demonstrate how a nanostructured combination of these materials can lead to a dramatic enhancement of light-matter…

Graphene moir\'e superlattices display electronic flat bands. At integer fillings of these flat bands, energy gaps due to strong electron-electron interactions are generally observed. However, the presence of other correlation-driven phases…

Lattice reconstruction and corresponding strain accumulation play a key role in defining the electronic structure of two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Imaging of TMD moir\'es…