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Volume 23 Issue 3, March 2024

Growing tunable moirés

Two-dimensional structures with tunable moiré patterns, which display tunable interlayer excitons and moiré intralayer excitons, are achieved by epitaxial bottom-up growth.

See Fortin-Deschênes et al.

Image: Yihao Song and Matthieu Fortin-Deschênes, Yale University. Cover design: Alex Whitworth

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