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Moire superlattices-twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles-are attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena revealed therein, including unconventional superconductivity,…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jialin Chen , Xiao Lin , Mingyuan Chen , Tony Low , Hongsheng Chen , Siyuan Dai

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) materials have emerged as a promising platform for exploring exotic quantum phenomena and engineering novel material properties in two dimensions, potentially revolutionizing developments in spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Fengjun Zhuo , Zhenyu Dai , Kai Chang , Hongxin Yang , Zhenxiang Cheng

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their many remarkable experimental properties, and the promise that they hold for realising elusive states of matter in the laboratory. We propose that…

Moir\'e superlattices - periodic orbital overlaps and lattice-reconstruction between sites of high atomic registry in vertically-stacked 2D layered materials - are quantum-active interfaces where non-trivial quantum phases on novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Zachariah Hennighausen , Swastik Kar

In addition to a plethora of emergent phenomena, the spatial topology of optical vortices enables an array of applications spanning communications to quantum photonics. Nonlinear optics is essential in this context, providing access to an…

The moir\'e superlattices formed by stacking 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with twisting angle or lattice mismatch have provided a versatile platform with unprecedented tunability for exploring many frontier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Dawei Zhai , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

In optoelectronics, achieving electrical reconfigurability is crucial as it enables the encoding, decoding, manipulating, and processing of information carried by light. In recent years, two-dimensional van der Waals (2-D vdW) materials…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have given rise to a number of emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron correlations. A lack of a simple way to characterize…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a number of improved mechanical, optical, electronic properties compared to their bulk counterparts. The absence of dangling bonds in the cleaved surfaces of these materials allows combining different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yu Kyoung Ryu , Riccardo Frisenda , Andres Castellanos-Gomez

Engineering moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provides fundamental control over emergent electronic, structural, and optical properties allowing to affect topological and correlated phenomena. This control is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Dongdong An , Tao Zhang , Qiaoling Xu , Hailing Guo , Majeed Ur Rehman , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio , Lei Wang , Lede Xian

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

Moir\'e superlattices, engineered through precise stacking of van der Waals (vdW) layers, hold immense promise for exploring strongly correlated and topological phenomena. However, these applications have been held back by the common…

In the past decade, moir\'e materials have revolutionized how we engineer and control quantum phases of matter. Among incommensurate materials, moir\'e materials are aperiodic composite crystals whose long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices…

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetism in van der Waals (vdW) atomic crystals and moir\'e superlattices has emerged as a topic of tremendous interest in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science within the past half-decade since…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-26 Youngjun Ahn , Xiaoyu Guo , Suhan Son , Zeliang Sun , Liuyan Zhao

Moir\'e superlattices of tunable wavelengths and the further developed moir\'e of moir\'e systems, by artificially assembling two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials as designed, have brought up a versatile toolbox to explore…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiangbin Cai , Weibo Gao

The investigation of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials is a vibrant, fast moving and still growing interdisciplinary area of research. 2D vdW materials are truly 2D crystals with strong covalent in-plane bonds and weak van der Waals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ursula Wurstbauer , Bastian Miller , Eric Parzinger , Alexander W. Holleitner

Van der Waals (vdW) superconductors - atomically thin crystalline materials that can be stacked into more complex heterostructures - have opened a promising avenue for superconducting electronics thanks to their properties that are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Angelo Di Bernardo , Elke Scheer

Building on discoveries in graphene and two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides, van der Waals (VdW) layered heterostructures - stacks of such 2D materials - are being extensively explored with resulting new discoveries of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-20 Nicholas Ng , Tyrel M. McQueen

Enhancing superconductivity through material design is a central goal in quantum materials research. Moire engineering, where twisting stacked layers creates long-wavelength modulations and flat bands, has shown how electronic correlations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-18 T. Bauch , F. Lombardi , G. Seibold

Moire superlattices are twisted bilayer materials, in which the tunable interlayer quantum confinement offers access to new physics and novel device functionalities. Previously, moire superlattices were built exclusively using materials…

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