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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

Controlling the stacking and rotational registry of graphene layers provides a powerful handle on atomic-scale structural reconstructions that alter the electronic landscape at the nanoscale. In particular, this governs how massless and…

Though research on graphene by itself has waned, the interest in moire materials, materials made with stacked layers of graphene with a rotational twist between the layers, has exploded in popularity. These layered devices show a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Ahmed Shaikh , Phanibhusan Singha Mahapatra , Eva Y. Andrei

When two monolayers of graphene are stacked with a small relative twist angle, the resulting band structure exhibits a remarkably flat pair of bands at a sequence of 'magic angles' where correlation effects can induce a host of exotic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-14 Eslam Khalaf , Alex J. Kruchkov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Ashvin Vishwanath

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) a moir\'e pattern forms that introduces a new length scale to the material. At the 'magic' twist angle of 1.1{\deg}, this causes a flat band to form, yielding emergent properties such as correlated…

Twisted graphene multilayers provide tunable platforms to engineer flat bands and exploit the associated strongly correlated physics. The two-dimensional nature of these systems makes them suitable for encapsulation by materials that break…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Guangze Chen , Maryam Khosravian , Jose L. Lado , Aline Ramires

Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HoPG) may be the only known monatomic crystal with the ability to host naturally formed moire patterns on its cleaved surfaces, which are coherent over micrometer scales and with discrete sets of twist…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-19 Nirjhar Sarkar , Prabhakar R. Bandaru , Robert C. Dynes

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) has emerged as a novel moir\'e material that exhibits both strong electronic correlations and unconventional superconductivity. However, spectroscopic studies of its electronic properties are…

We develop an analytical theory for lattice relaxation in twisted moir\'e heterobilayers, accounting for lattice mismatch, twist, external biaxial heterostrain, and different elastic constants. Starting from continuum elasticity, we derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Christophe De Beule , Yiyang Lai , Liangtao Peng , Daniel Bennett , Shaffique Adam

Heterostructures of stacked two-dimensional lattices have shown great promise for engineering novel material properties. As an archetypal example of such a system, the hexagon-shared honeycomb-kagome lattice has been experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Chan Bin Bark , Hanbyul Kim , Seik Pak , Hong-Guk Min , Sungkyun Ahn , Youngkuk Kim , Moon Jip Park

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

The study of moir\'e engineering started with the advent of van der Waals heterostructures in which stacking two-dimensional layers with different lattice constants leads to a moir\'e pattern controlling their electronic properties. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 F. Mesple , N. R. Walet , G. Trambly de Laissardière , F. Guinea , D. Dosenovic , H. Okuno , C. Paillet , A. Michon , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

Moir\'{e} superlattices in twisted bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides have emerged as a powerful tool for engineering novel band structures and quantum phases of two-dimensional quantum materials. Here we investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-17 Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures ---formed by stacking or growing two-dimensional (2D) crystals on top of each other--- have emerged as a new promising route to tailor and engineer the properties of 2D materials. Twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 G. Catarina , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , N. M. R. Peres

We propose a class of graphene-based moir\'e systems hosting flat bands on kagome and honeycomb moir\'e superlattices. These systems are formed by stacking a graphene layer on a 2D substrate with lattice constant approximately $\sqrt{3}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Michael G. Scheer , Biao Lian

Twisted van der Waals multilayers are widely regarded as a rich platform to access novel electronic phases, thanks to the multiple degrees of freedom such as layer thickness and twist angle that allow control of their electronic and…

We demonstrate that stacking layered materials allows a novel type of strain engineering where each layer is strained independently, which we call heterostrain. We combine detailed structural and spectroscopic measurements with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 L. Huder , A. Artaud , T. Le Quang , G. Trambly de Laissardière , A. G. M. Jansen , G. Lapertot , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

Twisted trilayer graphene hosts two moir\'e superlattices originating from two interfaces between graphene layers. However, the system is generally unstable to lattice relaxation at small twist angles and is expected to show a significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Joonho Jang

The relative strength of different proximity spin-orbit couplings in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) can be tuned via the metal composition in the TMDC layer. While Gr/MoSe$_2$, has a normal gap, proximity to WSe$_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Zahra Khatibi , Stephen R. Power