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MOIRÉ SUPERLATTICES

Twistronics and the small-angle magic

Nature Materials volume 21, pages 844–845 (2022)Cite this article

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Understanding, at the atomic level, the effect of the stacking and twisting of different layered two-dimensional materials is a major challenge for the future of twistronics. Optical excitations evidence twist-angle-dependent whirlpool-shaped distortions in such materials.

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Fig. 1: Artistic representations of the moiré superstructures formed when rotating two two-dimensional crystals with respect to one another by an angle θ.

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Fig. 2: Side view artistic representations of two different transition metal dichalcogenides forming a bilayer van der Waals heterostructure.

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Jorio, A. Twistronics and the small-angle magic. Nat. Mater. 21, 844–845 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01290-6

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