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 …

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 …

Electronic correlations in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle

Y Choi, J Kemmer, Y Peng, A Thomson, H Arora… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
Twisted bilayer graphene with a twist angle of around 1.1° features a pair of isolated flat
electronic bands and forms a platform for investigating strongly correlated electrons. Here …

Semiconductor/boron nitride composites: synthesis, properties, and photocatalysis applications

C Zhou, C Lai, C Zhang, G Zeng, D Huang… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Semiconductor photocatalysis has been regarded as one of promising approach to solve the
environmental pollution and energy crisis. Boron nitride (BN), as a new nanomaterial, has …

Impact of moiré superlattice on atomic stress and thermal transport in van der Waals heterostructures

W Ren, S Lu, C Yu, J He, Z Zhang, J Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Moiré superlattices and their interlayer interactions in van der Waals heterostructures have
received surging attention for manipulating the properties of quantum materials. In this work …

2D materials advances: from large scale synthesis and controlled heterostructures to improved characterization techniques, defects and applications

Z Lin, A McCreary, N Briggs, S Subramanian… - 2D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The rise of two-dimensional (2D) materials research took place following the isolation of
graphene in 2004. These new 2D materials include transition metal dichalcogenides, mono …

Tunable type-II band alignment and electronic structure of heterostructure: Interlayer coupling and electric field

CQ Nguyen, YS Ang, ST Nguyen, NV Hoang, NM Hung… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this work, we perform a first-principle study to investigate the atomic and electronic
structures of the C 3 N 4/MoSi 2 N 4 van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) as well as its …

Dynamic band-structure tuning of graphene moiré superlattices with pressure

M Yankowitz, J Jung, E Laksono, N Leconte, BL Chittari… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Heterostructures can be assembled from atomically thin materials by combining a wide
range of available van der Waals crystals, providing exciting possibilities for designer …

Relaxation and domain formation in incommensurate two-dimensional heterostructures

S Carr, D Massatt, SB Torrisi, P Cazeaux, M Luskin… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We introduce configuration space as a natural representation for calculating the mechanical
relaxation patterns of incommensurate two-dimensional (2D) bilayers. The approach can be …

Pressure dependence of the magic twist angle in graphene superlattices

S Carr, S Fang, P Jarillo-Herrero, E Kaxiras - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The recently demonstrated unconventional superconductivity [Cao, Nature (London) 556, 43
(2018) 10.1038/nature26160] in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) opens the possibility for …