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Moir\'e superlattice of twisted hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an advanced atomically thin van der Waals interfacial ferroelectricity platform. Nanoscale periodic ferroelectric moir\'e domains with out-of-plane potentials in…

Moir\'e superlattices formed by vertically stacking van der Waals layers host a rich variety of correlated electronic phases and function as novel photonic materials. The moir\'e potential of the superlattice, however, is fixed by the…

The stacking order and twist angle provide abundant opportunities for engineering band structures of two-dimensional materials, including the formation of moire bands, flat bands, and topologically nontrivial bands. The inversion symmetry…

Nanoscale polar structures are significant for understanding polarization processes in low-dimensional systems and hold potential for developing high-performance electronics. Here, we demonstrate a polar vortex superstructure arising from…

Twisted moir\'e supercells, which can be approximated as a combination of sliding bilayers and constitute various topologically nontrivial polarization patterns, attract extensive attention recently. However, because of the excessive size…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a high F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an number and can be easily bent, much like a paper, making undulations a novel way to design distinct electronic phases. Through first-principles calculations, we reveal the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Xingfu Li , Sunny Gupta , Boris I. Yakobson

We demonstrate that the concept of moir\'e flat bands can be generalized to achieve electronic band engineering in all three spatial dimensions. For many two dimensional van der Waals materials, twisting two adjacent layers with respect to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-05 Lede Xian , Ammon Fischer , Martin Claassen , Jin Zhang , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

Twisted hexagonal boron nitride (thBN) exhibits emergent ferroelectricity due to the formation of moir\'e superlattices with alternating AB and BA domains. These domains possess electric dipoles, leading to a periodic electrostatic…

Twisted magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials offer a promising route for multiferroic engineering, yet modeling large-scale moir\'e superlattices remains challenging. Leveraging a newly developed SpinGNN++ framework that effectively…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Haiyan Zhu , Hongyu Yu , Weiqin Zhu , Guoliang Yu , Changsong Xu , Hongjun Xiang

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

Lateral superlattices in 2D materials are emerging as a powerful platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena, which can be realized through the proximity coupling in forming moir\'e pattern with another layer. This approach, however, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Pei Zhao , Chengxin Xiao , Wang Yao

In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), a combination of structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moir\'e potentials that can confine charged and neutral excitations. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sara Shabani , Dorri Halbertal , Wenjing Wu , Mingxing Chen , Song Liu , James Hone , Wang Yao , Dmitri N. Basov , Xiaoyang Zhu , Abhay N. Pasupathy

Stacking two atomic crystals with a twist between their crystal axes produces moir\'e potentials that modify the electronic properties. Here we show that double moir\'e potentials generated by superposing three atomic crystals create a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Xinyuan Lai , Guohong Li , Angela M. Coe , Jedediah H. Pixley , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

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

Topological flat bands at the Fermi level offer a promising platform to study a variety of intriguing correlated phase of matter. Here we present band engineering in the twisted orbital-active bilayers with spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Huan Wang , Yadong Jiang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

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

Moir\'e heterostructures consisting of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) hetero- and homobilayers have emerged as a promising material platform to study correlated electronic states. Optical signatures of strong correlations in the form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-10 Natasha Kiper , Haydn S. Adlong , Arthur Christianen , Martin Kroner , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Atac Imamoglu

In binary compound 2D insulators/semiconductors such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), the different electron affinities of atoms can give rise to out-of-plane electric polarizations across inversion asymmetric van der Waals interface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Hongyi Yu , Ziheng Zhou , Wang Yao

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are proving a fertile ground for investigating strongly correlated electron phases. This is because the moir\'e pattern introduced by the relative twist between layers introduces…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-13 Hao Tang , Stephen Carr , Efthimios Kaxiras

Over the years, great efforts have been devoted in introducing a sizable and tunable band gap in graphene for its potential application in next-generation electronic devices. The primary challenge in modulating this gap has been the absence…

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