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Lattice reconstruction and corresponding strain accumulation play a key role in defining the electronic structure of two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Imaging of TMD moir\'es…

The spatial texture of internal degree of freedom of electrons has profound effects on the properties of materials. Such texture in real space can manifest as an emergent magnetic field (or Berry curvature), which is expected to induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Moir\'e superlattices in stacked 2D crystals are powerful platforms for engineering correlated and topological quantum phases, with twisted graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as prominent examples. Their angle-sensitive…

The formation of interfacial moir\'e patterns from angular and/or lattice mismatch has become a powerful approach to engineer a range of quantum phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures. For long-lived and valley-polarized interlayer…

Moir\'e superstructures arising at twisted 2D interfaces have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community due to exotic quantum states and unique mechanical and tribological behaviors that they exhibit. Here, we predict the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Andrea Silva , Xiang Gao , Melisa M. Gianetti , Roberto Guerra , Nicola Manini , Andrea Vanossi , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

We introduce a generalizable, physics informed strategy for generating training data that enables a machine learning force field accurate over a broad range of twist angles and stacking layer numbers in moire systems. Applying this to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Yueyao Fan , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Yusen Ye , Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Kaijie Yang , Di Xiao , Ting Cao

Patterning and defect engineering are key methods to tune 2D materials' properties. However, generating 2D periodic patterns of point defects in 2D materials has been elusive until now, despite the well-established methods for creating…

Strain engineering offers unique control to manipulate the electronic band structure of two-dimensional materials (2DMs) resulting in an effective and continuous tuning of the physical properties. Ad-hoc straining 2D materials has…

Interfaces between twisted 2D materials host a wealth of physical phenomena originating from the long-scale periodicity associated with the resulting moire structure. Besides twisting, an alternative route to create structures with…

Moir\'e materials, typically confined to stacking atomically thin, two - dimensional (2D) layers such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides, have transformed our understanding of strongly correlated and topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Ilya Popov , Elena Besley

Crystalline two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors often combine high elasticity and in-plane strength, making them ideal for strain-induced tuning of electronic characteristics, akin to strategies used in silicon electronics. However,…

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

We argue that strain engineering is a powerful tool which may facilitate the experimental realization and control of topological phases in laser-driven 2D ferromagnetic systems. To this extent, we show that by applying a circularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 T. V. C. Antão , N. M. R. Peres

The ability in experiments to control the relative twist angle between successive layers in two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a new approach to manipulating their electronic properties; we refer to this approach as "twistronics". A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Shiang Fang , Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

We demonstrate a method to induce tensile and compressive strain into two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) MoS$_{2}$ via the deposition of stressed thin films to encapsulate exfoliated flakes. With this technique we can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Tara Peña , Shoieb A. Chowdhury , Ahmad Azizimanesh , Arfan Sewaket , Hesam Askari , Stephen M. Wu

The relative orientation (twist) of successive layers of stacked two-dimensional (2D) materials creates variations in the interlayer atomic registry. The variations often form a super lattice, called a moir\'e pattern, which can alter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

The world of 2D materials is rapidly expanding with new discoveries of stackable and twistable layered systems composed of lattices of different symmetries, orbital character, and structural motifs. Often, however, it is not clear a priori…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Daniel Kaplan , Alexander C. Tyner , Eva Y. Andrei , J. H. Pixley

Due to the distinguished properties offered by different structural phases of monolayer MoS2, phase engineering design are urgently required for achieving switchable structural phase. Strain engineering is widely accepted as a clean and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-14 Bin Ouyang , Shiyun Xiong , Zhi Yang , Yuhang Jing , Yongjie Wang

When two-dimensional atomic crystals are brought into close proximity to form a van der Waals heterostructure, neighbouring crystals can start influencing each others electronic properties. Of particular interest is the situation when the…

Stacking two-dimensional (2D) layered materials offers a powerful platform to engineer electronic and magnetic states. In general, the resulting states, such as Moir\'e magnetism, have a periodicity at the length scale of the Moir\'e unit…