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Van der Waals interaction affects wrinkle formation in two-dimensional materials
Pablo Ares, Yi Bo Wang, Colin R. Woods +5
Nonlinear mechanics of solids is an exciting field that encompasses both beautiful mathematics, such as the emergence of instabilities and the formation of complex patterns, as wel…
Charge-polarized interfacial superlattices in marginally twisted hexagonal boron nitride
C. R. Woods, P. Ares, H. Nevison-Andrews +7
When two-dimensional crystals are brought into close proximity, their interaction results in strong reconstruction of electronic spectrum and local crystal structure. Such reconstr…
Holographic reconstruction of the interlayer distance of bilayer two-dimensional crystal samples from their convergent beam electron diffraction patterns
Tatiana Latychevskaia, Yichao Zou, Colin Robert Woods +5
The convergent beam electron diffraction (CBED) patterns of twisted bilayer samples exhibit interference patterns in their CBED spots. Such interference patterns can be treated as…
Convergent beam electron diffraction of multilayer van der Waals structures
Tatiana Latychevskaia, Colin Robert Woods, Yi Bo Wang +4
Convergent beam electron diffraction is routinely applied for studying deformation and local strain in thick crystals by matching the crystal structure to the observed intensity di…
Nonlinear optical study of commensurability effects in graphene-hBN heterostructures
E. A. Stepanov, S. V. Semin, C. R. Woods +4
Second-order nonlinear optical response allows to detect different properties of the system associated with the inversion symmetry breaking. Here, we use a second harmonic generati…
Composite super-moiré lattices in double aligned graphene heterostructures
Zihao Wang, Yi Bo Wang, J. Yin +23
When two-dimensional atomic crystals are brought into close proximity to form a van der Waals heterostructure, neighbouring crystals can start influencing each others electronic pr…
Piezoelectricity in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride
P. Ares, T. Cea, M. Holwill +7
Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide-bandgap van der Waals crystal with a unique combination of properties, including exceptional strength, large oxidation…
Stacking Order in Graphite Films Controlled by Van der Waals Technology
Yaping Yang, Yi-Chao Zou, Colin R. Woods +10
In graphite crystals, layers of graphene reside in three equivalent, but distinct, stacking positions typically referred to as A, B, and C projections. The order in which the layer…
Convergent beam electron holography for analysis of van der Waals heterostructures
Tatiana Latychevskaia, Colin Robert Woods, Yi Bo Wang +4
Van der Waals heterostructures, which explore the synergetic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials when assembled into three-dimensional stacks, have already brought to life…
Large tunable valley splitting in edge-free graphene quantum dots on boron nitride
Nils M. Freitag, Tobias Reisch, Larisa A. Chizhova +10
Coherent manipulation of binary degrees of freedom is at the heart of modern quantum technologies. Graphene offers two binary degrees: the electron spin and the valley. Efficient s…
Phase segregation facilitates exfoliation of franckeite crystals to a single unit cell thickness
Matěj Velický, Peter S. Toth, Alexander M. Rakowski +8
Weak interlayer van der Waals interactions in bulk crystals facilitate their mechanical exfoliation to monolayer and few-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials, which exhibit strikin…
Stacking transition in bilayer graphene caused by thermally activated rotation
Mengjian Zhu, Davit Ghazaryan, Seok-Kyun Son +8
Crystallographic alignment between two-dimensional crystals in van der Waals heterostructures brought a number of profound physical phenomena, including observation of Hofstadter b…
Tuning the pseudospin polarization of graphene by a pseudo-magnetic field
Alexander Georgi, Peter Nemes-Incze, Ramon Carrillo-Bastos +16
One of the intriguing characteristics of honeycomb lattices is the appearance of a pseudo-magnetic field as a result of mechanical deformation. In the case of graphene, the Landau…
Electrostatically confined monolayer graphene quantum dots with orbital and valley splittings
Nils M. Freitag, Larisa A. Chizhova, Peter Nemes-Incze +8
The electrostatic confinement of massless charge carriers is hampered by Klein tunneling. Circumventing this problem in graphene mainly relies on carving out nanostructures or appl…
Macroscopic self-reorientation of interacting two-dimensional crystals
C. R. Woods, F. Withers, M. J. Zhu +13
Microelectromechanical systems, which can be moved or rotated with nanometre precision, already find applications in such fields like radio-frequency electronics, micro-attenuators…
WSe2 light-emitting tunneling transistors with enhanced brightness at room temperature
F. Withers, O. Del Pozo-Zamudio, S. Schwarz +15
Monolayers of molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenides are direct bandgap semiconductors, which makes them promising for opto-electronic applications. In particular, van der Waals h…
Nonlocal Response and Anamorphosis: the Case of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus
Artem Mishchenko, Yang Cao, Geliang Yu +5
Few-layer black phosphorus was recently rediscovered as a narrow-bandgap atomically thin semiconductor and has already attracted unprecedented attention due to its interesting prop…
Quantum oscillations of the critical current and high-field superconducting proximity in ballistic graphene
M. Ben Shalom, M. J. Zhu, V. I. Fal'ko +8
Graphene-based Josephson junctions provide a novel platform for studying the proximity effect due to graphene's unique electronic spectrum and the possibility to tune junction prop…
Quality heterostructures from two dimensional crystals unstable in air by their assembly in inert atmosphere
Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, G. L. Yu +16
Many layered materials can be cleaved down to individual atomic planes, similar to graphene, but only a small minority of them are stable under ambient conditions. The rest reacts…
Twist-controlled resonant tunnelling in graphene-boron nitride-graphene heterostructures
A. Mishchenko, J. S. Tu, Y. Cao +19
Recent developments in the technology of van der Waals heterostructures made from two-dimensional atomic crystals have already led to the observation of new physical phenomena, suc…
Electronic Properties of Graphene Encapsulated with Different Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals
A. V. Kretinin, Y. Cao, J. S. Tu +18
Hexagonal boron nitride is the only substrate that has so far allowed graphene devices exhibiting micron-scale ballistic transport. Can other atomically flat crystals be used as su…
Commensurate-incommensurate transition for graphene on hexagonal boron nitride
C. R. Woods, L. Britnell, A. Eckmann +18
When a crystal is subjected to a periodic potential, under certain circumstances (such as when the period of the potential is close to the crystal periodicity; the potential is str…
Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices
L. A. Ponomarenko, R. V. Gorbachev, G. L. Yu +15
Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored elec…