Rodríguez A., Varillas J., Haider G., Kalbác M., Frank O.

ACS Nano

, , - (2023)

We investigate the intrinsic strain associated with the coupling of twisted MoS2/MoSe2 heterobilayers by combining experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. Our study reveals that small twist angles (between 0 and 2°) give rise to considerable atomic reconstructions, large moiré periodicities, and high levels of local strain (with an average value of