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Photothermal twistronics

Near-field optical microscopy reveals unique nanoscale domain structures of Moiré patterns in minimally twisted bilayer graphene via the photothermoelectric effect.

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Fig. 1: Photothermoelectric nanoscopy of twisted bilayer graphene.

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Nikitin, A.Y. Photothermal twistronics. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 489–490 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00890-8

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