Programming twist angle and strain profiles in 2D materials

M Kapfer, BS Jessen, ME Eisele, M Fu, DR Danielsen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices in twisted two-dimensional materials have generated tremendous
excitement as a platform for achieving quantum properties on demand. However, the moiré …

Strain Engineering of Twisted Bilayer Graphene: The Rise of Strain‐Twistronics

Y Hou, J Zhou, M Xue, M Yu, Y Han, Z Zhang, Y Lu - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The layer‐by‐layer stacked van der Waals structures (termed vdW hetero/homostructures)
offer a new paradigm for materials design—their physical properties can be tuned by the …

Engineering interlayer hybridization in van der Waals bilayers

E Barré, M Dandu, S Kundu, A Sood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
In the decade since the introduction of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for designer
devices, there has been an abundance of studies on the artificial assembly of vdW …

Strong second-harmonic generation by sublattice polarization in non-uniformly strained monolayer graphene

K Lu, M Luo, W Gao, QJ Wang, H Sun… - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the potential of graphene for building a variety of quantum photonic devices, its
centrosymmetric nature forbids the observation of second harmonic generation (SHG) for …

Moiré straintronics: a universal platform for reconfigurable quantum materials

M Kögl, P Soubelet, M Brotons-Gisbert… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Large-scale two-dimensional (2D) moiré superlattices are driving a revolution in
designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly …

Moiré engineering in 2D heterostructures with process-induced strain

T Peña, A Dey, SA Chowdhury, A Azizimanesh… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report deterministic control over a moiré superlattice interference pattern in twisted
bilayer graphene by implementing designable device-level heterostrain with process …

Interlayer electric multipoles induced by in-plane field from quantum geometric origins

H Zheng, D Zhai, C **ao, W Yao - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We show that interlayer charge transfer in 2D materials can be driven by an in-plane electric
field, giving rise to electrical multipole generation in linear and second order in-plane field …

'Magic'of twisted multi-layered graphene and 2D nano-heterostructures

K Saumya, S Naskar, T Mukhopadhyay - Nano Futures, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-dimensional materials with a single or few layers are exciting nano-scale materials that
exhibit unprecedented multi-functional properties including optical, electronic, thermal …

Heterostrain-Induced Zeeman-like Splitting in h-BN-Encapsulated Bilayer WSe2

Y Liu, Z Yan, R Bai, X Zhang, X Cheng, Y Ren… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Heterostrain is predicted to induce exceptionally rich physics in atomically thin two-
dimensional structures by modifying the symmetry and optical selection rules. In this work …

Heterostrain and temperature-tuned twist between graphene/h-BN bilayers

X Yang, B Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials stacked atomically at small twist angles enable the modification
of electronic states, motivating twistronics. Here, we demonstrate that heterostrain can rotate …