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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

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) provides us with a large rotational freedom to explore new physics and novel device applications, but many of its basic properties remain unresolved. Here we report the synthesis and systematic Raman study of…

Twistronic heterostructures have recently emerged as a new class of quantum electronic materials with properties determined by the twist angle between the adjacent two-dimensional materials. Here we study moir\'e superlattice minibands in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Christian Moulsdale , Angelika Knothe , Vladimir Fal'ko

We design a hybrid graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattice monolayer and investigate its thermoelectric properties using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equations with the relaxation time accurately treated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-31 Zizhen Zhou , Huijun Liu , Dengdong Fan , Guohua Cao

We report on the investigation of periodic superstructures in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) van-der-Waals heterostructures, where one of the graphene layers is aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our theoretical simulations reveal…

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

Graphene moire superlattices are outstanding platforms to study correlated electron physics and superconductivity with exceptional tunability. However, robust superconductivity has been measured only in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures can be dramatically altered by varying the relative angle between the layers. This makes it theoretically possible to realize a new class of twistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Changjian Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

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…

Graphene devices on standard SiO2 substrates are highly disordered, exhibiting characteristics far inferior to the expected intrinsic properties of graphene[1-12]. While suspending graphene above the substrate yields substantial improvement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 C. R. Dean , A. F. Young , I. Meric , C. Lee , L. Wang , S. Sorgenfrei , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Kim , K. L. Shepard , J. Hone

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

In this letter, we demonstrate electric field-induced band modification of an asymmetrically twisted hBN/BLG/hBN supermoire lattice. Distinct from unaligned BLG/hBN systems, we observe regions in the density-displacement field (n-D) plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Priya Tiwari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Aveek Bid

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is the supporting substrate of choice for two-dimensional material devices because it is atomically flat and chemically inert. However, due to the small size of mechanically exfoliated hBN flakes, electronic…

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

We report on transport properties in dual-gated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/bilayer-graphene (BLG) superlattices. Here, BLG is nontwisted, i.e., plain. This paper focuses on the charge neutrality point (CNP) for a plain BLG. Under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Takuya Iwasaki , Yoshifumi Morita , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi

Due to atomically thin structure, graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) heterostructures are intensively sensitive to the external mechanical forces and deformations being applied to their lattice structure. In particular, strain can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Zahra Khatibi , Afshin Namiranian , S. F. K. S. Panahi

First-principles calculations can accurately describe electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and electronic transport in a wide range of materials, but are currently limited to unit cells with up to $\sim$100 atoms due to computational cost.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 David J. Abramovitch , Marco Bernardi

We report an experimental study of carrier density (n), displacement field (D) and twist angle ({\theta}) dependence of temperature (T)-linear resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). For a large twist angle…

Moire superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and its derived structures can host exotic correlated quantum phenomena because the narrow moire flat minibands in those systems effectively enhance the electron-electron interaction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 Qiaoling Xu , Yuzheng Guo , Lede Xian

Moir\'e superlattices (MSL) formed in angle-aligned bilayers of van der Waals materials have become a promising platform to realize novel two-dimensional electronic states. Angle-aligned trilayer structures can form two sets of MSLs which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Xiong Huang , Lingxiu Chen , Shujie Tang , Chengxin Jiang , Chen Chen , Huishan Wang , Zhi-Xun Shen , Haomin Wang , Yong-Tao Cui