Illustration: New Way to Tune the Properties of 2D Materials by Adjusting the Twist Angle between Th (IMAGE)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Illustration: New Way to Tune the Properties of 2D Materials by Adjusting the Twist Angle between Th

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Illustration of controlled rotation of boron nitride (BN) layers above and below a graphene layer introduce coexisting moiré superlattices, which change size, symmetry, and complexity as a function of angle. In this system the Columbia researchers achieve unprecedented control over monolayer graphene's bandstructure within a single device, by mechanically rotating boron nitride atop graphene aligned to a bottom BN slab."

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Nathan Finney and Sanghoon Chae/Columbia Engineering

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