Novel effects of strains in graphene and other two dimensional materials

B Amorim, A Cortijo, F De Juan, AG Grushin, F Guinea… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The analysis of the electronic properties of strained or lattice deformed graphene combines
ideas from classical condensed matter physics, soft matter, and geometrical aspects of …

Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity in bilayer boron nitride

K Yasuda, X Wang, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics with robust polarization down to atomic thicknesses
provide building blocks for functional heterostructures. Experimental realization remains …

Interfacial ferroelectricity by van der Waals sliding

M Vizner Stern, Y Waschitz, W Cao, I Nevo… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Despite their partial ionic nature, many-layered diatomic crystals avoid internal electric
polarization by forming a centrosymmetric lattice at their optimal van der Waals stacking …

Recent Advances in Layered Two‐Dimensional Ferroelectrics from Material to Device

S Lin, G Zhang, Q Lai, J Fu, W Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of the post Moore era, modern electronics require further device
miniaturization of all electronic components, particularly ferroelectric memories, due to the …

Intrinsic quantized anomalous Hall effect in a moiré heterostructure

M Serlin, CL Tschirhart, H Polshyn, Y Zhang, J Zhu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect combines topology and magnetism to produce
precisely quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the observation of a …

Ultraflatbands and shear solitons in moiré patterns of twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

MH Naik, M Jain - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Ultraflatbands in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials have the potential to host
strong correlations, including the Mott-insulating phase at half-filling of the band. Using first …

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 …

Domino-like stacking order switching in twisted monolayer–multilayer graphene

S Zhang, Q Xu, Y Hou, A Song, Y Ma, L Gao, M Zhu… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Atomic reconstruction has been widely observed in two-dimensional van der Waals
structures with small twist angles,,,,,–. This unusual behaviour leads to many novel …

Emergent layer stacking arrangements in c-axis confined MoTe2

JL Hart, L Bhatt, Y Zhu, MG Han, E Bianco, S Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The layer stacking order in 2D materials strongly affects functional properties and holds
promise for next-generation electronic devices. In bulk, octahedral MoTe2 possesses two …

Structural and electronic transformation in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene

F Gargiulo, OV Yazyev - 2D Materials, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments on bilayer graphene unveiled a fascinating realization of stacking disorder
where triangular domains with well-defined Bernal stacking are delimited by a hexagonal …