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Strain-induced lattice mismatch leads to moir\'{e} patterns in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We investigate the structural and electronic properties of such strained moir\'{e} patterns in TMD homobilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Robin Bajaj , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

In this work, we reveal a curious type of moir\'e effect that selectively modifies the surface states of bulk crystal. We synthesize mixed-dimensional heterostructures consisting of a noble gas monolayer grow on the surface of bulk Bi(111),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-10 Shuming Yu , Zhentao Fu , Dingkun Qin , Enting Li , Hao Zhong , Xingzhe Wang , Keming Zhao , Shangkun Mo , Qiang Wan , Yiwei Li , Jie Li , Jianxin Zhong , Hong Ding , Nan Xu

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

We explore the flatness of conduction and valence bands of interlayer excitons in MoS$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterobilayers, tuned by interlayer twist angle, pressure, and external electric field. We employ an efficient continuum model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Sara Conti , Andrey Chaves , Tribhuwan Pandey , Lucian Covaci , François M. Peeters , David Neilson , Milorad V. Milošević

Experimental advances in the fabrication and characterization of few-layer materials stacked at a relative twist of small angle have recently shown the emergence of flat energy bands. As a consequence electron interactions become relevant,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-02 D. M. Kennes , L. Xian , M. Claassen , A. Rubio

We experimentally investigate the band structures of chirally twisted triple bilayer graphene. The new kind of moir\'e structure, formed by three pieces of helically stacked Bernal bilayer graphene, has flat bands at charge neutral point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Wenlu Lin , Wenxuan Wang , Shimin Cao , Miao Liang , Lili Zhao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinhua Gao , Jianhao Chen , Xiaobo Lu , Yang Liu

Recently, artificial moire superlattices of classical waves have aroused tremendous interest, inspired by the newly emergent twistronics that focuses on the peculiar electronic properties induced by flat bands. However, so far, the moire…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingzhi Liu , Xingjian Zhang , Qicheng Zhang , Xiying Fan , Fengcheng Wu , Chunyin Qiu

Layers of two-dimensional materials stacked with a small twist-angle give rise to beating periodic patterns on a scale much larger than the original lattice, referred to as a moir\'e superlattice. When the stacking involves more than two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Kan-Ting Tsai , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Yujie Luo , Stephen Carr , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ke Wang

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

The use of moir\'e patterns to manipulate two-dimensional materials has facilitated new possibilities for controlling material properties. The moir\'e patterns in the two-dimensional magnets can cause peculiar spin texture, as shown by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Kyoung-Min Kim , Moon Jip Park

The discovery of flat-bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has underscored the potential of moire engineering for correlated states, but such phases are notoriously difficult to realize and highly fragile against perturbations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yalan Wei , Shifang Li , Yuke Song , Chaoyu He

Flat bands in moir\'e superlattices provide a fertile ground for correlated and topological phases, governed by their quantum geometric properties. While the valley-based paradigm captures key features in select materials, it breaks down in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Arun Bansil

Moir\'e superlattices are generally assumed to act only at the interface where lattice mismatch or twist occurs. Here, we study charge transport in large-angle helical twisted trilayer graphene, where interlayer tunneling is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Dohun Kim , Junsik Choe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Gil Young Cho , Youngwook Kim

Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal platforms to study flat-band phenomena. In this paper, we investigate flat-band plasmons in the hole-doped twisted bilayer MoS$_2$ (tb-MoS$_2$) by employing a full tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Xueheng Kuang , Zhen Zhan , Shengjun Yuan

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers with an interlayer twist exhibit a moire super-period, whose effects can manifest in both structural and electronic properties. Atomic displacements can lead to reconstruction into domains of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Madeleine Phillips , C. Stephen Hellberg

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

So far the physics of moir\'e graphene bilayers at large, incommensurate rotation angles has been considered uninteresting. It has been held that the interlayer coupling in such structures is weak and the system can be thought of as a pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Hridis K. Pal , Stephen Spitz , Markus Kindermann

Photonic analogs of the moir\'e superlattices mediated by interlayer electromagnetic coupling are expected to give rise to rich phenomena such as nontrivial flatband topology. Here, we propose and demonstrate a scheme to tune the flatbands…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-29 Peilong Hong , Yi Liang , Zhigang Chen , Guoquan Zhang

Twisted bilayer systems with discrete magic angles, such as twisted bilayer graphene featuring moir\'{e} superlattices, provide a versatile platform for exploring novel physical properties. Here, we discover a class of superflat bands in…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongfei Wang , Shaojie Ma , Shuang Zhang , Dangyuan Lei

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures provide a tunable platform to study emergent properties that are absent in the natural crystal form. Twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TB-TMDs) can host moir\'e flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 En Li , Jin-Xin Hu , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Liheng An , Kam Tuen Law , Ning Wang , Nian Lin