Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: We introduce trilayer and multilayer moir\'e heterostructures that cannot be viewed from the ``moir\'e-of-moir\'e'' perspective of helically twisted trilayer graphene. These ``intrinsically trilayer'' moir\'e systems feature periodic modulation of a local quasicrystalline structure. They open the door to realizing moir\'e heterostructures with vastly more material constituents because they do not constrain the lattice constants of the layers. In this manuscript, we define intrinsically multilayer patterns, provide a recipe for their construction, derive their local configuration space, and connect the visual patterns to physical observables in material systems.
Authors: Aaron Dunbrack, Jennifer Cano
Institutions: Stony Brook University, Flatiron Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4382240583