Graphene bilayers with a twist

EY Andrei, AH MacDonald - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Near a magic twist angle, bilayer graphene transforms from a weakly correlated Fermi liquid
to a strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system with properties that are …

Electronic-structure methods for twisted moiré layers

S Carr, S Fang, E Kaxiras - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
When single layers of 2D materials are stacked on top of one another with a small twist in
orientation, the resulting structure often involves incommensurate moiré patterns. In these …

Direct visualization of magnetic domains and moiré magnetism in twisted 2D magnets

T Song, QC Sun, E Anderson, C Wang, J Qian… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Moiré superlattices of twisted nonmagnetic two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly
controllable platforms for the engineering of exotic correlated and topological states. Here …

Operando electron microscopy investigation of polar domain dynamics in twisted van der Waals homobilayers

K Ko, A Yuk, R Engelke, S Carr, J Kim, D Park, H Heo… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Conventional antiferroelectric materials with atomic-scale anti-aligned dipoles undergo a
transition to a ferroelectric (FE) phase under strong electric fields. The moiré superlattice …

Atomic and electronic reconstruction at the van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer graphene

H Yoo, R Engelke, S Carr, S Fang, K Zhang… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Control of the interlayer twist angle in two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW)
heterostructures enables one to engineer a quasiperiodic moiré superlattice of tunable …

Orderly disorder in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene

S Turkel, J Swann, Z Zhu, M Christos, K Watanabe… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (TTG) has recently emerged as a platform to engineer
strongly correlated flat bands. We reveal the normal-state structural and electronic properties …

Intralayer charge-transfer moiré excitons in van der Waals superlattices

MH Naik, EC Regan, Z Zhang, YH Chan, Z Li, D Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Moiré patterns of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers have proved to be an ideal
platform on which to host unusual correlated electronic phases, emerging magnetism and …

Moiré patterns in 2D materials: a review

F He, Y Zhou, Z Ye, SH Cho, J Jeong, X Meng… - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum materials have attracted much attention in recent years due to their exotic and
incredible properties. Among them, van der Waals materials stand out due to their weak …

Atomic reconstruction in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

A Weston, Y Zou, V Enaldiev, A Summerfield… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Van der Waals heterostructures form a unique class of layered artificial solids in which
physical properties can be manipulated through controlled composition, order and relative …

Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene

NP Kazmierczak, M Van Winkle, C Ophus… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Van der Waals heteroepitaxy allows deterministic control over lattice mismatch or azimuthal
orientation between atomic layers to produce long-wavelength superlattices. The resulting …