Publications by authors named "Thao H Dinh"

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Moiré engineering is being intensively investigated as a method to tune the electronic, magnetic and optical properties of twisted van der Waals materials. Advances in moiré engineering stem from the formation of peculiar moiré superlattices at small, specific twist angles. Here we report configurable nanoscale light-matter waves-phonon polaritons-by twisting stacked α-phase molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO) slabs over a broad range of twist angles from 0° to 90°.

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Chirality is ubiquitous in nature, and populations of opposite chiralities are surprisingly asymmetric at fundamental levels. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic weak force to homochirality in biomolecules. The ability to achieve chirality-selective synthesis (chiral induction) is of great importance in stereochemistry, molecular biology and pharmacology.

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When the Fermi level is aligned with the Dirac point of graphene, reduced charge screening greatly enhances electron-electron scattering. In an optically excited system, the kinematics of electron-electron scattering in Dirac fermions is predicted to give rise to novel optoelectronic phenomena. In this paper, we report on the observation of an intrinsic photocurrent in graphene, which occurs in a different parameter regime from all the previously observed photothermoelectric or photovoltaic photocurrents in graphene: the photocurrent emerges exclusively at the charge neutrality point, requiring no finite doping.

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