Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Twisted bilayer zigzag-graphene nanoribbon junctions with tunable edge states

  • Dongfei Wang,
  • De-Liang Bao,
  • Qi Zheng,
  • Chang-Tian Wang,
  • Shiyong Wang,
  • Peng Fan,
  • Shantanu Mishra,
  • Lei Tao,
  • Yao Xiao,
  • Li Huang,
  • Xinliang Feng,
  • Klaus Müllen,
  • Yu-Yang Zhang,
  • Roman Fasel,
  • Pascal Ruffieux,
  • Shixuan Du,
  • Hong-Jun Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36613-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Twisted 2D materials have recently emerged as a controllable quantum simulator platform. Here, the authors apply the same approach to tune the edge states of zigzag graphene nanoribbons, showing a unique degree of freedom represented by the lateral stacking offset of the 1D nanostructures.