Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

L Du, MR Molas, Z Huang, G Zhang, F Wang, Z Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices, the artificial quantum materials, have provided a wide range of
possibilities for the exploration of completely new physics and device architectures. In this …

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 …

Twistable electronics with dynamically rotatable heterostructures

R Ribeiro-Palau, C Zhang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2018 - science.org
In heterostructures of two-dimensional materials, electronic properties can vary dramatically
with relative interlayer angle. This effect makes it theoretically possible to realize a new class …

Commensurate–incommensurate transition in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

CR Woods, L Britnell, A Eckmann, RS Ma, JC Lu… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
When a crystal is subjected to a periodic potential, under certain circumstances it can adjust
itself to follow the periodicity of the potential, resulting in a commensurate state. Of particular …

Graphene moiré superlattices with giant quantum nonlinearity of chiral Bloch electrons

P He, GKW Koon, H Isobe, JY Tan, J Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Graphene-based samples have shown a plethora of exotic characteristics and these
properties may help the realization of a new generation of fast electronic devices. However …

Universal shape and pressure inside bubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures

E Khestanova, F Guinea, L Fumagalli, AK Geim… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Trapped substances between a two-dimensional (2D) crystal and an atomically flat substrate
lead to the formation of bubbles. Their size, shape and internal pressure are determined by …

Moiré Phonons in Twisted Bilayer MoS2

ML Lin, QH Tan, JB Wu, XS Chen, JH Wang, YH Pan… - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The material choice, layer thickness, and twist angle widely enrich the family of van der
Waals heterostructures (vdWHs), providing multiple degrees of freedom to engineer their …

In situ manipulation of van der Waals heterostructures for twistronics

Y Yang, J Li, J Yin, S Xu, C Mullan, T Taniguchi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
In van der Waals heterostructures, electronic bands of two-dimensional (2D) materials, their
nontrivial topology, and electron-electron interactions can be markedly changed by a moiré …

Tunable crystal symmetry in graphene–boron nitride heterostructures with coexisting moiré superlattices

NR Finney, M Yankowitz, L Muraleetharan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top
of one another, lattice mismatch and rotation between the layers can result in long …

Out-of-equilibrium criticalities in graphene superlattices

AI Berdyugin, N Xin, H Gao, S Slizovskiy, Z Dong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
In thermodynamic equilibrium, current in metallic systems is carried by electronic states near
the Fermi energy, whereas the filled bands underneath contribute little to conduction. Here …