Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Hyperbolic enhancement of photocurrent patterns in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

  • S. S. Sunku,
  • D. Halbertal,
  • T. Stauber,
  • S. Chen,
  • A. S. McLeod,
  • A. Rikhter,
  • M. E. Berkowitz,
  • C. F. B. Lo,
  • D. E. Gonzalez-Acevedo,
  • J. C. Hone,
  • C. R. Dean,
  • M. M. Fogler,
  • D. N. Basov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21792-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here, the authors use scanning probe photocurrent imaging to resolve nanoscale variations of the Seebeck coefficient occurring at domain walls separating micron-scale AB and BA stacking regions in twisted bilayer graphene, and observe hyperbolic enhancement of the photocurrent pattern.