Layer Stacking (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Layer Stacking

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Stacking of graphene sheets creates regions where the moiré alignment is of type AA (all atoms have neighbors in the layer below), AB (only A atoms have neighbors) or BA (only B atoms have neighbors). In the figure, AA regions are blue-white, while AB and BA regions are red and yellow, respectively.

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Courtesy of Phillip First

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