• 文献标题:   Imaging Dual-Moire Lattices in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Aligned on Hexagonal Boron Nitride Using Microwave Impedance Microscopy
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HUANG X, CHEN LX, TANG SJ, JIANG CX, CHEN C, WANG HS, SHEN ZX, WANG HM, CUI YT
  • 作者关键词:   microwave impedance microscopy, twisted bilayer graphene aligned on hbn, dualmoire lattice, ultrahigh resolution <2 nm
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00601 EA MAY 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Moire superlattices (MSLs) formed in van der Waals materials have become a promising platform to realize novel two-dimensional electronic states. Angle-aligned trilayer structures can form two sets of MSLs which could potentially interfere. In this work, we directly image the moirepatterns in both monolayer and twisted bilayer graphene aligned on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), using combined scanning microwave impedance microscopy and conductive atomic force microscopy. Correlation of the two techniques reveals the contrast mechanism for the achieved ultrahigh spatial resolution (<2 nm). We observe two sets of MSLs with different periodicities in the trilayer stack. The smaller MSL breaks the 6-fold rotational symmetry and exhibits abrupt discontinuities at the boundaries of the larger MSL. Using a rigid atomic-stacking model, we demonstrate that the hBN layer considerably modifies the MSL of twisted bilayer graphene. We further analyze its effect on the reciprocal space spectrum of the dual-moire system.