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Journal of Semiconductors
Vol. 44, Issue 1, 011902 (2023)

Review of phonons in moiré superlattices

Zhenyao Li^1、2, Jia-Min Lai^1、2、*, and Jun Zhang^{1、2、3、**}

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³CAS Center of Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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