A microscopic perspective on moiré materials

KP Nuckolls, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024‏ - nature.com
Contemporary quantum materials research is guided by themes of topology and electronic
correlations. A confluence of these two themes is engineered in moiré materials, an …

Semiconductor moiré materials

KF Mak, J Shan - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Moiré materials have emerged as a platform for exploring the physics of strong electronic
correlations and non-trivial band topology. Here we review the recent progress in …

Thermodynamic evidence of fractional Chern insulator in moiré MoTe2

Y Zeng, Z **a, K Kang, J Zhu, P Knüppel, C Vaswani… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Chern insulators, which are the lattice analogues of the quantum Hall states, can potentially
manifest high-temperature topological orders at zero magnetic field to enable next …

Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2

K Kang, B Shen, Y Qiu, Y Zeng, Z **a, K Watanabe… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a
bulk band gap similar to an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge …

Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2

Y Guo, J Pack, J Swann, L Holtzman, M Cothrine… - Nature, 2025‏ - nature.com
The discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene,,,–has generated
tremendous interest. The key feature of these systems is an interplay between interlayer …

Composite Fermi Liquid at Zero Magnetic Field in Twisted

J Dong, J Wang, PJ Ledwith, A Vishwanath… - Physical Review Letters, 2023‏ - APS
The pursuit of exotic phases of matter outside of the extreme conditions of a quantizing
magnetic field is a long-standing quest of solid state physics. Recent experiments have …

Programming correlated magnetic states with gate-controlled moiré geometry

E Anderson, FR Fan, J Cai, W Holtzmann, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The ability to control the underlying lattice geometry of a system may enable transitions
between emergent quantum ground states. We report in situ gate switching between …

Phase engineering of 2D materials

D Kim, J Pandey, J Jeong, W Cho, S Lee… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Polymorphic 2D materials allow structural and electronic phase engineering, which can be
used to realize energy-efficient, cost-effective, and scalable device applications. The phase …

Substrate engineering for wafer-scale two-dimensional material growth: strategies, mechanisms, and perspectives

T Zhao, J Guo, T Li, Z Wang, M Peng, F Zhong… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The fabrication of wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) materials is a prerequisite and
important step for their industrial applications. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most …

Kinetic magnetism in triangular moiré materials

L Ciorciaro, T Smoleński, I Morera, N Kiper, S Hiestand… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Magnetic properties of materials ranging from conventional ferromagnetic metals to strongly
correlated materials such as cuprates originate from Coulomb exchange interactions. The …