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We demonstrate the fabrication of individual nanopores in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with atomically precise control of the pore size. Previous methods of pore production in other 2D materials create pores of irregular geometry with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-07 S. Matt Gilbert , Gabriel Dunn , Thang Pham , Brian Shevitski , Edgar Dimitrov , Shaul Aloni , Alex Zettl

Encapsulating few-layer graphene (FLG) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can cause nanoscale inhomogeneities in the FLG, including changes in stacking domains and topographic defects. Due to the diffraction limit, characterizing these…

Interference of double moire patterns of graphene (G) encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (BN) can alter the electronic structure features near the primary/secondary Dirac points and the electron-hole symmetry introduced by a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Nicolas Leconte , Jeil Jung

Periodically corrugated epitaxial graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) on metallic substrates are considered as perspective templates for the self-assembly of nanoparticles arrays. By using first-principles calculations, we determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Oleg V. Yazyev , Alfredo Pasquarello

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

Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle $\theta$ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical…

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

A fundamental building block in nano-photonics is the ability to directionally excite highly squeezed optical mode dynamically, particularly with an electrical bias. Such capabilities would enable the active manipulation of light…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-26 Yuyu Jiang , Xiao Lin , Tony Low , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Atom-layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), with excellent stability, flat surface and large bandgap, has been reported to be the best 2D insulator to open up the great possibilities for exciting potential applications in electronics,…

Hexagonal boron nitride is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a very high thermal and chemical stability often used in devices operating under extreme conditions. The growth of high-purity crystals has recently revealed the potential of this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 G. Cassabois , P. Valvin , B. Gil

We investigate the electronic and optical properties of lateral heterostructures made of alternated armchair ribbons of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. It is known that the gapwidth of these heterostructures can be classified into…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Elisa Serrano Richaud , Sylvain Latil , Lorenzo Sponza

Elemental phosphorous is believed to have several stable allotropes that are energetically nearly degenerate, but chemically reactive. To prevent chemical degradation under ambient conditions, these structures may be capped by monolayers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Pablo Rivero , Cedric M. Horvath , Zhen Zhu , Jie Guan , David Tománek , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Understanding water behaviour on 2D materials is crucial for sensing, microfluidics, and tribology. While water/graphene interactions are well studied, water on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) remains largely unexplored. Despite structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Philipp Seiler , Anthony Payne , Neubi F. Xavier , Louie Slocombe , Marco Sacchi , Anton Tamtögl

The encapsulation of few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is known to improve significantly their optical and electronic properties. However, it may be expected that the h-BN encapsulation may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 M. Grzeszczyk , M. R. Molas , M. Bartoš , K. Nogajewski , M. Potemski , A. Babiński

In this article, we have theoretically investigated the performance of graphene-hexagonal Boron Nitride hyper crystals to demonstrate all angle negative refraction.Hexagonal Boron Nitride, the latest natural hyperbolic material; can be a…

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 van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals constitute a new paradigm in nanoscience. Hybrid devices of graphene with insulating 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have emerged as promising nanoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 M. Venkata Kamalakar , André Dankert , Johan Bergsten , Tommy Ive , Saroj P. Dash

Graphene was epitaxially grown on both the C- and Si-faces of 4H- and 6H-SiC(0001) under an argon atmosphere and under high vacuum conditions. Following growth, samples were imaged with Nomarski interference contrast and atomic force…

Hydrogen is an important building block in global strategies towards a future green energy system. To make this transition possible, intense scientific efforts are needed, also in the field of materials science. Two-dimensional crystals,…

We identify features in the angle-resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) arising from the periodic pattern characteristic for graphene heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). For this, we model ARPES spectra and intensity maps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. R. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko