Twisted van der waals quantum materials: Fundamentals, tunability, and applications

X Sun, M Suriyage, AR Khan, M Gao, J Zhao… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Twisted van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials have emerged as a rapidly developing field
of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. These materials establish a new central research …

Electrostatic moiré potential from twisted hexagonal boron nitride layers

DS Kim, RC Dominguez, R Mayorga-Luna, D Ye… - Nature materials, 2024 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices host a rich variety of correlated electronic phases. However, the moiré
potential is fixed by interlayer coupling, and it is dependent on the nature of carriers and …

Image polaritons in van der Waals crystals

SG Menabde, JT Heiden, JD Cox, NA Mortensen… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Polaritonic modes in low-dimensional materials enable strong light–matter interactions and
the manipulation of light on nanometer length scales. Very recently, a new class of …

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 …

Vibrational properties in highly strained hexagonal boron nitride bubbles

E Blundo, A Surrente, D Spirito, G Pettinari… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is widely used as a protective layer for few-atom-thick
crystals and heterostructures (HSs), and it hosts quantum emitters working up to room …

Optically Probing the Asymmetric Interlayer Coupling in Rhombohedral-Stacked Bilayer

J Liang, D Yang, J Wu, JI Dadap, K Watanabe… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The interlayer coupling is emerging as a new parameter for tuning the physical properties of
two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials. When two identical semiconductor …

Spatially resolved polarization manipulation of ferroelectricity in twisted hBN

M Lv, X Sun, Y Chen, T Taniguchi… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Robust room‐temperature interfacial ferroelectricity has been formed in the 2D limit by
simply twisting two atomic layers of non‐ferroelectric hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). A …

Moiré modulation of van der Waals potential in twisted hexagonal boron nitride

S Chiodini, J Kerfoot, G Venturi, S Mignuzzi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
When a twist angle is applied between two layered materials (LMs), the registry of the layers
and the associated change in their functional properties are spatially modulated, and a …

Electrical spectroscopy of polaritonic nanoresonators

S Castilla, H Agarwal, I Vangelidis, YV Bludov… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
One of the most captivating properties of polaritons is their capacity to confine light at the
nanoscale. This confinement is even more extreme in two-dimensional (2D) materials. 2D …

Unconventional non-local relaxation dynamics in a twisted trilayer graphene moiré superlattice

D Halbertal, S Turkel, CJ Ciccarino, JB Profe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The electronic and structural properties of atomically thin materials can be controllably tuned
by assembling them with an interlayer twist. During this process, constituent layers …