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TWISTED GRAPHENE

Magic under the microscope

Nature Materials volume 20, pages 908–909 (2021)Cite this article

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Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy is demonstrated to be a powerful technique for interrogating local strain of twisted graphene bilayers, revealing a two-regime lattice reconstruction process below the ‘magic’ angle.

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Fig. 1: Atomic rearrangement.

panels a and b reproduced with permission from ref. 6, Springer Nature Ltd.

Fig. 2: Probing local strain.

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  1. National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    S. J. Haigh & R. Gorbachev

  2. Department of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    S. J. Haigh

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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