Flat bands in magic-angle bilayer photonic crystals at small twists

K Dong, T Zhang, J Li, Q Wang, F Yang, Y Rho… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The new physics of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) motivated extensive studies
of flat bands hosted by moiré superlattices in van der Waals structures, inspiring the …

Flat bands in twisted double bilayer graphene

NR Chebrolu, BL Chittari, J Jung - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Flat bands with extremely narrow bandwidths on the order of a few millielectron volts can
appear in twisted multilayer graphene systems for appropriate system parameters. Here we …

Visualization of the flat electronic band in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle twist

MIB Utama, RJ Koch, K Lee, N Leconte, H Li, S Zhao… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Bilayer graphene has been predicted to host a moiré miniband with flat dispersion if the
layers are stacked at specific twist angles known as the'magic angles',. Recently, twisted …

Broken-symmetry states at half-integer band fillings in twisted bilayer graphene

S Bhowmik, B Ghawri, N Leconte, S Appalakondaiah… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The dominance of Coulomb interactions over the kinetic energy of electrons in flat moiré
bands of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) gives rise to a variety of correlated …

Topological flat bands in rhombohedral tetralayer and multilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattices

Y Park, Y Kim, BL Chittari, J Jung - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We show that rhombohedral four-layer graphene (4LG) nearly aligned with a hexagonal
boron nitride (hBN) substrate often develops nearly flat isolated low-energy bands with …

Evaluation of van der Waals density functionals for layered materials

SA Tawfik, T Gould, C Stampfl, MJ Ford - Physical Review Materials, 2018 - APS
In 2012, Björkman et al. posed the question “Are we van der Waals ready?”[T. Björkman, J.
Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 424218 (2012) JCOMEL 0953-8984 10.1088/0953 …

Pressure induced compression of flatbands in twisted bilayer graphene

BL Chittari, N Leconte, S Javvaji, J Jung - Electronic Structure, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the bandwidth compression due to out of plane pressure of the moiré
flatbands near charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene for a continuous range of small …

Ultrahigh-resolution scanning microwave impedance microscopy of moiré lattices and superstructures

K Lee, MIB Utama, S Kahn, A Samudrala… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Two-dimensional heterostructures composed of layers with slightly different lattice vectors
exhibit new periodic structure known as moiré lattices, which, in turn, can support novel …

Moiré-driven electromagnetic responses and magic angles in a sandwiched hyperbolic metasurface

Y Liu, C Ouyang, Q Xu, X Su, Q Yang, J Ma, Y Li… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Recent moiré configurations provide a new platform for tunable and sensitive photonic
responses, as their enhanced light–matter interactions originate from the relative …

Negative Differential Friction Predicted in 2D Ferroelectric In2Se3 Commensurate Contacts

J Sun, L Zhang, R Pang, XJ Zhao, J Cheng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
At the macroscopic scale, the friction force (f) is found to increase with the normal load (N),
according to the classic law of Da Vinci–Amontons, namely, f= µN, with a positive definite …