• 文献标题:   Double Moire with a Twist: Supermoire in Encapsulated Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ANDELKOVIC M, MILOVANOVIC SP, COVACI L, PEETERS FM
  • 作者关键词:   supermoire in encapsulated graphene, moire induced minigap, moire interference, relaxation of encapsulated graphene
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Antwerp
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04058
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moire pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with the top and bottom hBN layers experiences two interfering moire patterns, resulting in a so-called supermoire (SM). This leads to a lattice and electronic spectrum reconstruction. A geometrical construction of the nonrelaxed SM patterns allows us to indicate qualitatively the induced changes in the electronic properties and to locate the SM features in the density of states and in the conductivity. To emphasize the effect of lattice relaxation, we report band gaps at all Dirac-like points in the hole doped part of the reconstructed spectrum, which are expected to be enhanced when including interaction effects. Our result is able to distinguish effects due to lattice relaxation and due to the interfering SM and provides a clear picture on the origin of recently experimentally observed effects in such trilayer heterostuctures.