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Yueyin Wang

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Deterministic fabrication of large-area, high-crystallinity oxide moire superlattices

Oxide twistronics extends moire engineering beyond van der Waals materials, offering a promising platform for accessing emergent interfacial phenomena arising from the strong coupling of lattice, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom in complex oxides. However, deterministic fabrication of high-crystallinity oxide moire superlattices over large lateral dimensions remains challenging due to the three-dimensional bonding network of oxides. Here, we demonstrate a scalable, generalized fabrication strategy that enables the formation of high-crystallinity oxide moire superlattices with clean, chemically bonded interfaces and precisely controlled twist angles down to nominal values of 0.1 degree, achieving sub-degree twist-angle accuracy across large contiguous lateral dimensions approaching the millimeter scale. Using NaNbO3 as a model system, we show that the resulting interlayer coupling drives pronounced structural reconstruction that modifies both the phase structure and ferroelectric domain configuration. Synchrotron-based X-ray 3D reciprocal space mapping reveals the emergence of a single-phase state in twisted bilayers, in contrast to the mixed-phase structure observed in single-layer membranes prior to twist assembly. The structural signatures are further consistent with gradual lattice rotation distributed along the thickness direction that may accommodate interfacial shear strain, distinct from reconstruction observed in van der Waals moire systems, which primarily occurs through in-plane stacking rearrangement. This collective lattice response is correlated with twist-dependent nanoscale electromechanical modulations observed by piezoresponse force microscopy. These results establish a scalable materials platform for oxide twistronics and open new pathways towards integrating twist-engineered complex oxides into practical, macroscale device architectures.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

Low-loss far-infrared surface phonon polaritons in suspended SrTiO3 nanomembranes

Phonon polaritons (PhPs), excitations arising from the coupling of light with lattice vibrations, enable light confinement and local field enhancement, which is essential for various photonic and thermal applications. To date, PhPs with high confinement and low loss have been mainly observed in the mid-infrared regime and mostly in manually exfoliated flakes of van der Waals (vdW) materials. In this work, we demonstrate the existence of low-loss, thickness-tunable phonon polaritons in the far-infrared regime within transferable free-standing SrTiO3 membranes synthesized through a scalable approach, achieving high figures of merit, which are comparable to the previous record values from the vdW materials. Leveraging atomic precision in thickness control, large dimensions, and compatibility with mature oxide electronics, functional oxide membranes present a promising large-scale two-dimensional (2D) platform alternative to vdW materials for on-chip polaritonic technologies in the far-infrared regime.

physics.optics↗