Building Large-Domain Twisted Bilayer Graphene with van Hove Singularity

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 6725-6730

  Tan, Zhenjun ^a,c   Yin, Jianbo ^a   Chen, Cheng ^b   Wang, Huan ^a   Lin, Li ^a   Sun, Luzhao ^a,c   Wu, Jinxiong ^a   Sun, Xiao ^a,c   Yang, Haifeng ^b,d   Chen, Yulin ^b   Peng, Hailin ^a   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

interlayer coupling; photocurrent enhancement; twisted bilayer graphene; van Hove singularity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INTERLAYER COUPLING; INTERLAYER INTERACTIONS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; TWISTED BILAYERS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84979896150     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02046     Document Type: Article

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