Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nature. 2023 Aug;620(7975):750-755. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06290-3. Epub 2023 Jul 19.
Moiré patterns formed by stacking atomically thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to notable new physical properties. The study of moiré materials has so far been limited to structures comprising no more than a few van der Waals sheets, because a moiré pattern localized to a single two-dimensional interface is generally assumed to be incapable of appreciably modifying the properties of a bulk three-dimensional crystal. Here, we perform transport measurements of dual-gated devices constructed by slightly rotating a monolayer graphene sheet atop a thin bulk graphite crystal. We find that the moiré potential transforms the electronic properties of the entire bulk graphitic thin film. At zero and in small magnetic fields, transport is mediated by a combination of gate-tuneable moiré and graphite surface states, as well as coexisting semimetallic bulk states that do not respond to gating. At high field, the moiré potential hybridizes with the graphitic bulk states due to the unique properties of the two lowest Landau bands of graphite. These Landau bands facilitate the formation of a single quasi-two-dimensional hybrid structure in which the moiré and bulk graphite states are inextricably mixed. Our results establish twisted graphene-graphite as the first in a new class of mixed-dimensional moiré materials.
由相对扭转角度堆叠原子层状范德华晶体形成的莫尔图案可以产生显著的新物理特性。到目前为止,对莫尔材料的研究仅限于不超过几个范德华片的结构,因为假定局部化到单个二维界面的莫尔图案不能显著改变体三维晶体的性质。在这里,我们对通过稍微旋转单层石墨烯片在薄体石墨晶体上构建的双栅器件进行了传输测量。我们发现莫尔势转变了整个体石墨薄膜的电子性质。在零场和小磁场下,传输是由可调谐莫尔和石墨表面态以及共存的对门控没有响应的半金属体态的组合介导的。在高场下,由于石墨的两个最低朗道带的独特性质,莫尔势与石墨体态发生杂化。这些朗道带促进了单个准二维混合结构的形成,其中莫尔和体石墨态不可分割地混合在一起。我们的结果确立了扭曲的石墨烯-石墨为新型混合维数莫尔材料中的首例。