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We study the effect of atomic relaxation on the structure of moir\'e patterns in twisted graphene on graphite and double layer graphene by large scale atomistic simulations. The reconstructed structure can be described as a superlattice of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 M. M. van Wijk , A. Schuring , M. I. Katsnelson , A. Fasolino

Superlattices are artificial periodic nanostructures which can control the flow of electrons. Their operation typically relies on the periodic modulation of the electric potential in the direction of electron wave propagation. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Hugen Yan , Xuesong Li , Bhupesh Chandra , George Tulevski , Yanqing Wu , Marcus Freitag , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

Graphene has recently attracted much interest as a material for flexible, transparent electrodes or active layers in electronic and photonic devices. However, realization of such graphene-based devices is limited due to difficulties in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-21 Sugkyun Cha , Minjeong Cha , Seojun Lee , Jin Hyoun Kang , Changsoon Kim

Topology and electron interactions are two central themes in modern condensed matter physics. Here we propose graphene based systems where both the band topology and interaction effects can be simply controlled with electric fields. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 Ya-Hui Zhang , Dan Mao , Yuan Cao , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , T. Senthil

Rational design of artificial lattices yields effects unavailable in simple solids, and vertical superlattices of multilayer semiconductors are already used in optical sensors and emitters. Manufacturing lateral superlattices remains a much…

To realize the applicative potential of 2D twistronic devices, scalable synthesis and assembly techniques need to meet stringent requirements in terms of interface cleanness and twist-angle homogeneity. Here, we show that small-angle…

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…

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent on the periodicity and symmetry of the moir\'e pattern,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. Kögl , P. Soubelet , M. Brotons-Gisbert , A. V. Stier , B. D. Gerardot , J. J. Finley

Moir\'e superlattices formed from twisting trilayers of graphene are an ideal model for studying electronic correlation, and offer several advantages over bilayer analogues, including more robust and tunable superconductivity and a wide…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

Topological transitions are fundamental phenomena in electronics, photonics, and quantum technologies. However, the scalability and tunability of Topological transitions in these systems have still been constrained by their material…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Bo Tian , Xi Zhang , Ruitao Wu , Yuquan Zhang , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

Moir\'e-superlattices are ubiquitous in 2D heterostructures, strongly influencing their electronic properties. They give rise to new Dirac cones and are also at the origin of the superconductivity observed in magic-angle bilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Márton Szendrő , Péter Süle , Gergely Dobrik , Levente Tapasztó

The observation of novel physical phenomena such as Hofstadter's butterfly, topological currents and unconventional superconductivity in graphene have been enabled by the replacement of SiO$_2$ with hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Saad Alkhalifa , Freddie Withers , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Printing has drawn a lot of attention as a means of low per-unit cost and high throughput patterning of graphene inks for scaled-up thin-form factor device manufacturing. However, traditional printing processes require a flat surface and…

The recent discovery of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG), in which two sheets of monolayer graphene are precisely stacked to a specific angle, has opened up a plethora of new opportunities in the field of topology,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Roop Kumar Mech , Jean Spièce , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pascal Gehring

When atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are layered they often form incommensurate non-crystalline structures that exhibit long-period moir{\' e} patterns when examined by scanning probes. In this paper we present an approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Jeil Jung , Arnaud Raoux , Zhenhua Qiao , Allan H. MacDonald

We present a fabrication process for graphene-based devices where a graphene monolayer is suspended above a local metallic gate placed in a trench. As an example we detail the fabrication steps of a graphene field-effect transistor. The…

Moir\'e superlattices formed at the interface between stacked two-dimensional atomic crystals offer limitless opportunities to design materials with widely tunable properties and engineer intriguing quantum phases of matter. However,…

Nano-rippled graphene, a structurally modified graphene, presents a novel material with a large range of possible applications including sensors, electrodes, coatings, optoelectronics, spintronics and straintronics. In this work we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Iva Šrut Rakić , Davor Čapeta , Milivoj Plodinec , Marko Kralj

We report an efficient technique to induce gate-tunable two-dimensional superlattices in graphene by the combined action of a back gate and a few-layer graphene patterned bottom gate complementary to existing methods. The patterned gates in…