TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermally Induced Graphene Rotation on Hexagonal Boron Nitride
AU - Wang, Duoming
AU - Chen, Guorui
AU - Li, Chaokai
AU - Cheng, Meng
AU - Yang, Wei
AU - Wu, Shuang
AU - Xie, Guibai
AU - Zhang, Jing
AU - Zhao, Jing
AU - Lu, Xiaobo
AU - Chen, Peng
AU - Wang, Guole
AU - Meng, Jianling
AU - Tang, Jian
AU - Yang, Rong
AU - He, Congli
AU - Liu, Donghua
AU - Shi, Dongxia
AU - Watanabe, Kenji
AU - Taniguchi, Takashi
AU - Feng, Ji
AU - Zhang, Yuanbo
AU - Zhang, Guangyu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 American Physical Society.
PY - 2016/3/23
Y1 - 2016/3/23
N2 - In this Letter, we report the observation of thermally induced rotation of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). After the rotation, two thermally stable configurations of graphene on h-BN with a relative lattice twisting angle of 0° (most stable) and 30° (metastable), respectively, were found. Graphene on h-BN with a twisting angle below (above) a critical angle of ∼12±2° tends to rotate towards 0° (30°) at a temperature of >100 °C, which is in line with our theoretical simulations. In addition, by manipulating the annealing temperature and the flake sizes of graphene, moiré superlattices with large spatial periods of graphene on h-BN are achieved. Our studies provide a detailed understanding of the thermodynamic properties of graphene on h-BN and a feasible approach to obtaining van der Waals heterostructures with aligned lattices.
AB - In this Letter, we report the observation of thermally induced rotation of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). After the rotation, two thermally stable configurations of graphene on h-BN with a relative lattice twisting angle of 0° (most stable) and 30° (metastable), respectively, were found. Graphene on h-BN with a twisting angle below (above) a critical angle of ∼12±2° tends to rotate towards 0° (30°) at a temperature of >100 °C, which is in line with our theoretical simulations. In addition, by manipulating the annealing temperature and the flake sizes of graphene, moiré superlattices with large spatial periods of graphene on h-BN are achieved. Our studies provide a detailed understanding of the thermodynamic properties of graphene on h-BN and a feasible approach to obtaining van der Waals heterostructures with aligned lattices.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.126101
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.126101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962343710
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 116
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 12
M1 - 126101
ER -