Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology

PC Adak, S Sinha, A Agarwal… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Berry curvature physics and quantum geometric effects have been instrumental in
advancing topological condensed matter physics in recent decades. Although Landau level …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity in bilayer boron nitride

K Yasuda, X Wang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics with robust polarization down to atomic thicknesses
provide building blocks for functional heterostructures. Experimental realization remains …

Two-dimensional topological photonics

AB Khanikaev, G Shvets - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Originating from the studies of two-dimensional condensed-matter states, the concept of
topological order has recently been expanded to other fields of physics and engineering …

van der Waals heterostructures combining graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

M Yankowitz, Q Ma, P Jarillo-Herrero… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
As the first in a large family of 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, graphene has attracted
enormous attention owing to its remarkable properties. The recent development of simple …

Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices

C **, EC Regan, A Yan, M Iqbal Bakti Utama, D Wang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices enable the generation of new quantum phenomena in two-dimensional
heterostructures, in which the interactions between the atomically thin layers qualitatively …

Observation of long-range orbital transport and giant orbital torque

H Hayashi, D Jo, D Go, T Gao, S Haku… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Modern spintronics relies on the generation of spin currents through spin-orbit coupling. The
spin-current generation has been believed to be triggered by current-induced orbital …

Valleytronics in 2D materials

JR Schaibley, H Yu, G Clark, P Rivera, JS Ross… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Semiconductor technology is currently based on the manipulation of electronic charge;
however, electrons have additional degrees of freedom, such as spin and valley, that can be …

Moiré excitons: From programmable quantum emitter arrays to spin-orbit–coupled artificial lattices

H Yu, GB Liu, J Tang, X Xu, W Yao - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
Highly uniform and ordered nanodot arrays are crucial for high-performance quantum
optoelectronics, including new semiconductor lasers and single-photon emitters, and for …

Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

KF Mak, D **ao, J Shan - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …