Quantifying the local mechanical properties of twisted double bilayer graphene

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Main Authors: Canetta, Alessandra, Gonzalez-Munoz, Sergio, Nguyen, Viet-Hung, Agarwal, Khushboo, de Picquendaele, Pauline de Crombrugghe, Hong, Yuanzhuo, Mohapatra, Sambit, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Nysten, Bernard, Hackens, Benoît, Ribeiro-Palau, Rebeca, Charlier, Jean-Christophe, Kolosov, Oleg, Spièce, Jean, Gehring, Pascal
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author Canetta, Alessandra
Gonzalez-Munoz, Sergio
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Agarwal, Khushboo
de Picquendaele, Pauline de Crombrugghe
Hong, Yuanzhuo
Mohapatra, Sambit
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Nysten, Bernard
Hackens, Benoît
Ribeiro-Palau, Rebeca
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Kolosov, Oleg
Spièce, Jean
Gehring, Pascal
author_facet Canetta, Alessandra
Gonzalez-Munoz, Sergio
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Agarwal, Khushboo
de Picquendaele, Pauline de Crombrugghe
Hong, Yuanzhuo
Mohapatra, Sambit
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Nysten, Bernard
Hackens, Benoît
Ribeiro-Palau, Rebeca
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Kolosov, Oleg
Spièce, Jean
Gehring, Pascal
contents Nanomechanical measurements of minimally twisted van der Waals materials remained elusive despite their fundamental importance for device realisation. Here, we use Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM) to locally quantify the variation of out-of-plane Young's modulus in minimally twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). We reveal a softening of the Young's modulus by 7\% and 17\% along single and double domain walls, respectively. Our experimental results are confirmed by force-field relaxation models. This study highlights the strong tunability of nanomechanical properties in engineered twisted materials, and paves the way for future applications of designer 2D nanomechanical systems.
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spellingShingle Quantifying the local mechanical properties of twisted double bilayer graphene
Canetta, Alessandra
Gonzalez-Munoz, Sergio
Nguyen, Viet-Hung
Agarwal, Khushboo
de Picquendaele, Pauline de Crombrugghe
Hong, Yuanzhuo
Mohapatra, Sambit
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Nysten, Bernard
Hackens, Benoît
Ribeiro-Palau, Rebeca
Charlier, Jean-Christophe
Kolosov, Oleg
Spièce, Jean
Gehring, Pascal
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Nanomechanical measurements of minimally twisted van der Waals materials remained elusive despite their fundamental importance for device realisation. Here, we use Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM) to locally quantify the variation of out-of-plane Young's modulus in minimally twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). We reveal a softening of the Young's modulus by 7\% and 17\% along single and double domain walls, respectively. Our experimental results are confirmed by force-field relaxation models. This study highlights the strong tunability of nanomechanical properties in engineered twisted materials, and paves the way for future applications of designer 2D nanomechanical systems.
title Quantifying the local mechanical properties of twisted double bilayer graphene
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12610