Electric field tunable bandgap in twisted double trilayer graphene

被引:5
作者
Perrin, Mickael L. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Jayaraj, Anooja [4 ]
Ghawri, Bhaskar [1 ]
Watanabe, Kenji [5 ]
Taniguchi, Takashi [6 ]
Passerone, Daniele [4 ]
Calame, Michel [1 ,7 ,8 ]
Zhang, Jian [1 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Labs Mat Sci & Technol, Transport Nanoscale Interfaces Lab, Empa, CH-8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland
[2] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Informat Technol & Elect Engn, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Quantum Ctr, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[4] Swiss Fed Labs Mat Sci & Technol, Nanotech Surfaces Lab, Empa, CH-8600 Dubendorf, Switzerland
[5] Natl Inst Mat Sci, Res Ctr Funct Mat, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 3050044, Japan
[6] Natl Inst Mat Sci, Int Ctr Mat Nanoarchitecton, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan
[7] Univ Basel, Dept Phys, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
[8] Univ Basel, Swiss Nanosci Inst, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
CORRELATED STATES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; INSULATOR; MOTT; GAP;
D O I
10.1038/s41699-024-00449-w
中图分类号
TB3 [工程材料学];
学科分类号
0805 ; 080502 ;
摘要
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have recently emerged as a versatile platform for engineering interaction-driven, topological phenomena with a high degree of control and tunability. Since the initial discovery of correlated phases in twisted bilayer graphene, a wide range of moir & eacute; materials have emerged with fascinating electronic properties. While the field of twistronics has rapidly evolved and now includes a range of multi-layered systems, moir & eacute; systems comprised of double trilayer graphene remain elusive. Here, we report electrical transport measurements combined with tight-binding calculations in twisted double trilayer graphene (TDTLG). We demonstrate that small-angle TDTLG (similar to 1.7-2.0(degrees)) exhibits an intrinsic bandgap at the charge neutrality point. Moreover, by tuning the displacement field, we observe a continuous insulator-semimetal-insulator transition at the CNP, which is also captured by tight-binding calculations. These results establish TDTLG systems as a highly tunable platform for further exploration of magneto-transport and optoelectronic properties.
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