{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mapping-local-heterogeneity-in-open-twisted","title":"Measuring local moiré lattice heterogeneity of twisted bilayer graphene","arxiv_id":"2008.13766","date":"2020-08-31","proceeding":null,"authors":["Tjerk Benschop","Tobias A. de Jong","Petr Stepanov","Xiaobo Lu","Vincent Stalman","Sense Jan van der Molen","Dmitri K. Efetov","Milan P. Allan"],"abstract":"We introduce a new method to continuously map inhomogeneities of a moir\\'e lattice and apply it to large-area topographic images we measure on open-device twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We show that the variation in the twist angle of a TBG device, which is frequently conjectured to be the reason for differences between devices with a supposed similar twist angle, is about 0.08{\\deg} around the average of 2.02{\\deg} over areas of several hundred nm, comparable to devices encapsulated between hBN slabs. We distinguish between an effective twist angle and local anisotropy and relate the latter to heterostrain. Our results imply that for our devices, twist angle heterogeneity has a roughly equal effect to the electronic structure as local strain. The method introduced here is applicable to results from different imaging techniques, and on different moir\\'e materials.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13766v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13766v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mapping-local-heterogeneity-in-open-twisted","repo_url":"https://github.com/TAdeJong/moire-lattice-generator","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}