• 文献标题:   Designed growth of large bilayer graphene with arbitrary twist angles
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU C, LI ZH, QIAO RX, WANG QH, ZHANG ZB, LIU F, ZHOU ZQ, SHANG NZ, FANG HW, WANG MX, LIU ZK, FENG Z, CHENG Y, WU H, GONG DW, LIU S, ZHANG ZS, ZOU DX, FU Y, HE J, HONG H, WU MH, GAO P, TAN PH, WANG XQ, YU DP, WANG EG, WANG ZJ, LIU KH
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1476-1122 EI 1476-4660
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  • 被引频次:   15
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41563-022-01361-8 EA SEP 2022
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The production of large-area twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with controllable angles is a prerequisite for proceeding with its massive applications. However, most of the prevailing strategies to fabricate twisted bilayers face great challenges, where the transfer methods are easily stuck by interfacial contamination, and direct growth methods lack the flexibility in twist-angle design. Here we develop an effective strategy to grow centimetre-scale TBG with arbitrary twist angles (accuracy, <1.0 degrees). The success in accurate angle control is realized by an angle replication from two prerotated single-crystal Cu(111) foils to form a Cu/TBG/Cu sandwich structure, from which the TBG can be isolated by a custom-developed equipotential surface etching process. The accuracy and consistency of the twist angles are unambiguously illustrated by comprehensive characterization techniques, namely, optical spectroscopy, electron microscopy, photoemission spectroscopy and photocurrent spectroscopy. Our work opens an accessible avenue for the designed growth of large-scale two-dimensional twisted bilayers and thus lays the material foundation for the future applications of twistronics at the integration level. Angle tunability in twisted bilayer graphene is crucial in promoting its applications of twistronics. Here an angle replication strategy is developed to obtain centimetre-scale bilayer graphene with arbitrary twist angles.