Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Flat band carrier confinement in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

  • Nikhil Tilak,
  • Xinyuan Lai,
  • Shuang Wu,
  • Zhenyuan Zhang,
  • Mingyu Xu,
  • Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro,
  • Paul C. Canfield,
  • Eva Y. Andrei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24480-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Twist-angle disorder is considered a major source of sample-to-sample variation in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. By using scanning tunnelling spectroscopy, the authors demonstrate that a small doping inhomogeneity, present in typical samples, is amplified near the flat band edges and can be another source of disturbance for the flat band physics.