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Commensurate–incommensurate transition in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride
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When a crystal is subjected to a periodic potential, under certain circumstances it can adjust itself to follow the periodicity of the potential, resulting in a commensurate state. Of particular interest are topological defects between the two commensurate phases, such as solitons and domain walls. Here we report a commensurate–incommensurate transition for graphene on top of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Depending on the rotation angle between the lattices of the two crystals, graphene can either stretch to adapt to a slightly different hBN periodicity (for small angles, resulting in a commensurate state) or exhibit little adjustment (the incommensurate state). In the commensurate state, areas with matching lattice constants are separated by domain walls that accumulate the generated strain. Such soliton-like objects are not only of significant fundamental interest, but their presence could also explain recent experiments where electronic and optical properties of graphene-hBN heterostructures were observed to be considerably altered. A single layer of graphene on top of a hexagonal boron-nitride sheet can stretch to form a commensurate structure, or not — depending on the rotation angle between the two layers. In the case of commensurability, strain gets concentrated in domain walls, resulting in soliton-like structures.
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- Authors
- Woods, C. R., Britnell, L., Eckmann, A., Ma, R. S., Lu, J. C., Guo, H. M., Lin, X., Yu, G. L., Cao, Y., Gorbachev, R. V., Kretinin, A. V., Park, J., Ponomarenko, L. A., Katsnelson, M. I., Gornostyrev, Y. N., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Casiraghi, C., Gao, H.-J., Geim, A. K., & Novoselov, K. S.
- Venue
- Nature Physics
- Published
- 2014-04-28
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 451-456
- ISSN
- 1745-2473 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-2481
- OpenAlex
- W2157720508
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- 912
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 37.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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