Strain Engineering of Twisted Bilayer Graphene: The Rise of Strain‐Twistronics

Y Hou, J Zhou, M Xue, M Yu, Y Han, Z Zhang, Y Lu - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The layer‐by‐layer stacked van der Waals structures (termed vdW hetero/homostructures)
offer a new paradigm for materials design—their physical properties can be tuned by the …

Moiré Superlattice in Two-Dimensional Materials: Fundamentals, Applications, and Recent Developments

X Zhang, Y Long, N Lu, F Jian, X Zhang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Moiré superlattices, arising from the periodic Moiré patterns formed by two-dimensional (2D)
materials stacked with a slight lattice mismatch, have attracted significant attention due to …

Competition of Moiré Network Sites to Form Electronic Quantum Dots in Reconstructed MoX2/WX2 Heterostructures

I Soltero, MA Kaliteevski, JG McHugh, V Enaldiev… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Twisted bilayers of two-dimensional semiconductors offer a versatile platform for
engineering quantum states for charge carriers using moiré superlattice effects. Among the …

In-plane staging in lithium-ion intercalation of bilayer graphene

T Astles, JG McHugh, R Zhang, Q Guo, M Howe… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ongoing efforts to optimize rechargeable Li-ion batteries led to the interest in
intercalation of nanoscale layered compounds, including bilayer graphene. Its lithium …

Impact of out-of-plane deformation on atomic reconstruction in twisted van der Waals bilayers

B Zhang, W Qiu, X Liao, L He, Y Ni - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The effects of out-of-plane deformation on atomic relaxation in twisted van der Waals
bilayers are investigated by comprehensive multiscale modeling and simulations. The …

One-dimensional topological channels in heterostrained bilayer graphene

NC Georgoulea, NM Caffrey, SR Power - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The domain walls between AB-and BA-stacked gapped bilayer graphene have garnered
intense interest as they host topologically protected, valley-polarized transport channels …

Growth of bilayer stanene on a magnetic topological insulator aided by a buffer layer

S Barman, P Bhakuni, S Sarkar, J Bhattacharya… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Stanene, a two-dimensional counterpart to graphene, has the potential to exhibit novel
quantum phenomena when grown on a magnetic topological insulator (MTI). This work …

Kagomé quantum oscillations in graphene superlattices

FK de Vries, S Slizovskiy, P Tomic… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electronic spectra of solids subjected to a magnetic field are often discussed in terms of
Landau levels and Hofstadter-butterfly-style Brown–Zak minibands manifested by magneto …

Long wavelength interdomain phonons and instability of dislocations in small-angle twisted bilayers

VV Enaldiev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04166, 2024 - arxiv.org
We develop a theory for long wavelength phonons originating at dislocations separating
domains in small-angle twisted homobilayers of 2D materials such as graphene and MX …

Structural and electronic properties of bilayer graphene with biaxial heterostrain

F Mesple, NR Walet, GT de Laissardière, F Guinea… - phantomsfoundation.com
The study of moiré engineering started with the advent of van der Waals heterostructures, in
which stacking 2D layers with different lattice constants leads to a moiré pattern controlling …