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Ordering with a twist

Tuning the twist angle in bilayer transitional metal dichalcogenides yields ordered structural phases with mesoscopically modulated electronic properties revealed by the combination of electron and scanning probe microscopies.

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Fig. 1: Twist-induced reconstructions in stacked 2D layers.

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract no. DE-AC0500OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. This effort was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division and was performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), a US DOE, Office of Science User Facility.

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Kalinin, S.V. Ordering with a twist. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 515–516 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0705-6

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