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Understanding and controlling the properties and dynamics of topological defects is a lasting challenge in the study of two-dimensional materials, and is crucial to achieve high-quality films required for technological applications. Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-28 Doaa Taha , S. K. Mkhonta , K. R. Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang

We present a novel approach to achieve spatial variations in the degree of non-covalent functionalization of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG). The tBLG with twist angles varying between ~ 5{\deg} and 7{\deg} was non-covalently functionalized…

The existence of strong trigonal warping around the K point for the low energy electronic states in multilayer (N$\geq$2) graphene films and graphite is well established. It is responsible for phenomena such as Lifshitz transitions and…

The discoveries of numerous exciting phenomena in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) are stimulating significant investigations on moir\'e structures that possess a tunable moir\'e potential. Optical response can provide insights into the…

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

The emerging ferroelectric properties of two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures are at the forefront of science and prospective technology. In moir\'e bilayers, twisting or heterostructuring causes local atomic reconstruction, which even at…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Wilson Nieto Luna , Robin Smeyers , Cem Sevik , Lucian Covaci , Milorad V. Milošević

Out-of-plane polar domain structures have recently been discovered in strained and twisted bilayers of inversion symmetry broken systems such as hexagonal boron nitride. Here we show that this symmetry breaking also gives rise to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-02 Daniel Bennett , Gaurav Chaudhary , Robert-Jan Slager , Eric Bousquet , Philippe Ghosez

In a groundbreaking experimental advance it was recently shown that by stacking two sheets of graphene atop of each other at a twist angle close to one of the so called "magic angles", an effective two-dimensional correlated system emerges.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Lede Xian , Dante M. Kennes , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Massimo Altarelli , Angel Rubio

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

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 investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez

We study the interfacial thermal conductance of grain boundaries (GBs) between monolayer graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sheets using a combined atomistic approach. First, realistic samples containing graphene/h-BN GBs with…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-03 Haikuan Dong , Petri Hirvonen , Zheyong Fan , Ping Qian , Yanjing Su , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Moir\'e materials offer a versatile platform for engineering excitons with unprecedented control, promising next-generation optoelectronic applications. While continuum models are widely used to study moir\'e excitons due to their…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-08 Indrajit Maity , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Ángel Rubio

We calculate theoretically the disorder-limited conductivity of monolayer and bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrates, comparing our theoretical results with the recent experimental results. The comparison leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

The moir\'e potential of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) generates a supercell sufficiently large as to thread a full magnetic flux quantum $\Phi_0$ for experimentally accessible magnetic field strengths. Close to rational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Thomas Fabian , Matthias Kausel , Lukas Linhart , Joachim Burgdörfer , Florian Libisch

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 study the stability and electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene on the hexagonal boron nitride (TBG/BN). Full relaxation has been performed for commensurate supercells of the heterostructures with different twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Xianqing Lin , Kelu Su , Jun Ni

Using scanning-tunneling-microscopy and theoretical modeling on heterostructures of twisted bilayer graphene and hexagonal Boron-Nitride, we show that the emergent super-moire structures display a rich landscape of moire-crystals and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Xinyuan Lai , Daniele Guerci , Guohong Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Justin Wilson , Jedediah H. Pixley , Eva Y. Andrei

We report deterministic control over moir\'e superlattice interference pattern in twisted bilayer graphene by implementing designable device-level heterostrain with process-induced strain engineering, a widely used technique in industrial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Tara Peña , Aditya Dey , Shoieb A. Chowdhury , Ahmad Azizimanesh , Wenhui Hou , Arfan Sewaket , Carla L. Watson , Hesam Askari , Stephen M. Wu