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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

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

Utilizing the established Bistritzer-MacDonald model for twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG), we theoretically investigate the non-Hermitian (NH) topological properties of this in the presence of non-reciprocal (NR) hopping on both layers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Kamalesh Bera , Debasish Mondal , Arijit Saha , Debashree Chowdhury

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

We present electronic transport measurements of single- and bilayer graphene on commercially available hexagonal boron nitride. We extract mobilities as high as 125 000 cm^2/V/s at room temperature and 275 000 cm^2/V/s at 4.2 K. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. J. Zomer , S. P. Dash , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

The observation of novel physical phenomena such as Hofstadter's butterfly, topological currents and unconventional superconductivity in graphene have been enabled by the replacement of SiO$_2$ with hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Saad Alkhalifa , Freddie Withers , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

We study the atomic and electronic structures of the commensurate double moir\'{e} superlattices in fully relaxed twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) nearly aligned with the hexagonal boron nitride (BN). The single-particle effective Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Xianqing Lin , Jun Ni

We assess the impact of atomistic substrate lattice relaxation schemes in the primary band gap at charge neutrality and the secondary valence band gap of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/h-BN) as a function of twist angle. For zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jiaqi An , Nicolas Leconte , Srivani Javvaji , Youngju Park , Jeil Jung

We study the infrared cyclotron resonance of high mobility monolayer graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride, and simultaneously observe several narrow resonance lines due to interband Landau level transitions. By holding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 B. Jordan Russell , Boyi Zhou , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , Erik A. Henriksen

Hexagonal boron nitride encapsulation is the method of choice for protecting graphene from environmental doping and impurity scattering. It was previously demonstrated that metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) grows epitaxially…

Over the past decade, graphene has emerged as a promising candidate for exploring the viscous nature of electronic flow facilitated by the availability of extremely high-quality devices employing a graphene channel encapsulated within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Akash Gugnani , Aniket Majumdar , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Arindam Ghosh

Zigzag edges of graphene have long been predicted to exhibit magnetic electronic state near the Fermi level, which can cause spin-related phenomena and offer unique potentials for graphene-based spintronics. However, the magnetic conduction…

In twisted h-BN/graphene heterostructures, the complex electronic properties of the fast-traveling electron gas in graphene are usually considered to be fully revealed. However, the randomly twisted heterostructures may also have unexpected…

Finding an effective and controllable way to create a sizable energy gap in graphene-based systems has been a challenging topic of intensive research. We propose that the hybrid of boron nitride and graphene (h-BNC) at low BN doping serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Chih-Piao Chuu , Wei-En Tseng , Kuan-Hung Liu , Ching-Ming Wei , Mei-Yin Chou

Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moir\'e superlattices have attracted interest for use in the study of many-body effects and fractal physics in Dirac fermion systems. Many exotic transport properties have been intensively examined in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Takuya Iwasaki , Shu Nakaharai , Yutaka Wakayama , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yoshifumi Morita , Satoshi Moriyama

Devising ways of opening a band gap in graphene to make charge-carrier masses finite is essential for many applications. Recent experiments with graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) offer tantalizing hints that the weak interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Menno Bokdam , Taher Amlaki , Geert Brocks , Paul J. Kelly

Among two-dimensional atomic crystals, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is one of the most remarkable materials to fabricate heterostructures revealing unusual properties. We perform first-principles calculations to determine whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Sohee Park , Changwon Park , Gunn Kim

Due to their low surface mass density, two-dimensional materials with a strong piezoelectric response are interesting for nanoelectromechanical systems with high force sensitivity. Unlike graphene, the two sublattices in a monolayer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard , Vitor M. Pereira

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 theory is developed for calculating vertical tunneling current between two sheets of bilayer graphene separated by a thin, insulating layer of hexagonal boron nitride, neglecting many-body effects. Results are presented using physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Sergio C. de la Barrera , Randall M. Feenstra