Moiré bands in twisted double-layer graphene

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 12233-12237

  Bistritzer, Rafi ^a   MacDonald, Allan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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GRAPHENE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79961094171     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108174108     Document Type: Article

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