Implementation of a Quantum Twisting Microscope

Abstract

Two dimensional (2D) materials are widely studied for both pure scientific interest and potential real world applications. Recently, the effect of a relative twist between 2D materials has generated a lot of interest. This has motivated the need for experimental techniques that can create samples with in-situ twist to avoid individual fabrication of samples at fixed angles. Additionally, many of the effects of twist require a fully momentum resolved band structure to fully appreciate them. This thesis describes and provides steps to replicate a recently developed novel scanning probe technique, the quantum twisting microscope (QTM), which provides an approach to overcoming both of these problems by facilitating the creation and characterization of 2D material interfaces with arbitrary twist angle.