Moiré patterns in van der Waals heterostructures

@article{Ster2019MoirPI,
  title={Moir{\'e} patterns in van der Waals heterostructures},
  author={Maxime Le Ster and Tobias Maerkl and Paweł J. Kowalczyk and Simon Anthony Brown},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2019}
}
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