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Correlated real-space imaging and optical measurements of twisted MoSe2/WSe2 bilayers reveal strain-induced modulations of the moiré potential landscape, tuning arrays of 0D traps into 1D stripes and leading to substantial changes in the optical response of the heterostructures.

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Fig. 1: Illustration of moiré patterns formed in TMDC heterostructures.

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Zhang, L., Deng, H. Flatland, lineland and dotland. Nat. Mater. 19, 1044–1045 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0770-0

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