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Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) present an intriguing platform for exploring excitons and their transport properties. By introducing a twist angle, a moir\'e superlattice forms, providing a spatially dependent exciton energy…

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Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we investigate electron-phonon heat transfer rate in a suspended bilayer graphene. Contrary to monolayer graphene with heat flow via three-body supercollision scattering, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Antti Laitinen , Manohar Kumar , Mika Oksanen , Bernard Plaçais , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

Non-equilibrium transport and phonon branch-resolved size effects in single-layer graphene materials are studied under a multi-temperature kinetic model, which is developed for capturing the branch-dependent electron-phonon coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chuang Zhang , Houssem Rezgui , Meng Lian , Hong Liang

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

We present a phenomenological force-constant model developed for the description of lattice dynamics of sp2 hybridized carbon networks. Within this model approach, we introduce a new set of parameters to calculate the phonon dispersion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Zimmermann , P. Pavone , G. Cuniberti

Coherent wave effects of thermal phonons hold promise of transformative opportunities in thermal transport control but remain largely unexplored due to the small wavelength of thermal phonons, typically below a few nanometers. This small…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-09 Usama Choudhry , Shengying Yue , Bolin Liao

We develop a theory for density, disorder, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity of bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range charged impurity scattering as well as an additional short-range disorder of independent origin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials, such as twisted bilayer graphene, often feature flat electronic bands that enable the observation of electron correlation effects. In this work, we study the electronic structure of twisted…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Valerio Vitale , Kemal Atalar , Arash A. Mostofi , Johannes Lischner

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

Carrier relaxation measurements in moir\'e materials offer a unique probe of the microscopic interactions, in particular the ones that are not easily measured by transport. Umklapp scattering between phonons is a ubiquitous…

The minimum thermal conductance versus supercell size ($d_{s}$) is revealed in graphene and boron nitride superlattice with $d_{s}$ far below the phonon mean free path. The minimum value is reached at a constant ratio of $d_{s}/L\approx…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-31 Jin-Wu Jiang , Bing-Shen Wang , Jian-Sheng Wang

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides an example of a system in which the interplay of interlayer interactions and superlattice structure impacts electron transport in a variety of non-trivial ways and gives rise to a plethora of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 I. Y. Phinney , D. A. Bandurin , C. Collignon , I. A. Dmitriev , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

An unconventional insulating phase and a superconducting phase were recently discovered in the twisted bilayer graphene [Y. Cao et al, Nature {\bf 556}, 80; {\bf 556}, 43 (2018)], but the relevant low-energy electronic states have not been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Long Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have recently been the focus of extensive research. By following a similar trend as graphene, other 2D materials including transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2) and metal mono-chalcogenides (MX) show great…

First principles-based predictions of lattice thermal conductivity (TC) from perturbation theory have achieved significant success. Usually, it only included three-phonon (3ph) scattering processes, only recently four-phonon (4ph)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 H. F. Feng , B. Liu , Xin-Gao Gong , Zhi-Xin Guo

Recently, an anisotropic Debye model [Dames et al., Physical Review B 87, 12 (2013)] was proposed for calculations of the interfacial thermal conductance and the minimum thermal conductivity of graphite-like layered materials. Despite…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Hongkun Li , Weidong Zheng , Yee Kan Koh

Twisted 2D layered materials have garnered a lot of attention recently as a class of 2D materials whose interlayer interactions and electronic properties are dictated by the relative rotation / twist angle between the adjacent layers. In…

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…

We calculate the contribution to the doping ($n$) and temperature ($T$) dependence of the electrical resistivity of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) due to scattering by acoustic phonons. Our calculation retains the full Bistritzer-MacDonald…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Seth M. Davis , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma