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Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers are artificial crystals of two twisted atomically thin semiconductor layers, forming moiré superlattices that host excitons and correlated quantum phases.

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide moiré lattice

A twisted transition metal dichalcogenide moiré lattice is a long-period superlattice formed when two atomically thin TMD semiconductor layers are stacked with a small twist angle.

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenides are van der Waals heterostructures of twisted atomically thin semiconductor layers whose moiré superlattice hosts superconductivity, Wigner crystals, and quantum anomalous Hall states.

Twisted trilayer graphene

Twisted trilayer graphene is a stack of three single-atom graphene sheets with two independent twist angles, whose moiré flat bands near the 1.1° magic angle host superconductivity and correlated insulating phases.

Twisted WSe2

Twisted WSe2 refers to stacks of atomically thin tungsten diselenide layers rotated at a small angle, forming moiré bands that host superconductivity and correlated insulating states.

Twister (1996 film)

Twister (1996) is an American disaster thriller directed by Jan de Bont, written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers testing the Dorothy device; second-highest-grossing film of 1996.

Twister (game)

Twister is a 1966 Milton Bradley (now Hasbro) physical party game invented via Reyn Guyer's firm by Charles Foley and Neil Rabens, patent US 3,454,279; players place hands and feet on colored mat circles, and a 1966 Tonight Show appearance revived its stalled sales.

Twister (soundtrack)

Twister (soundtrack): 1996 Warner Bros. song album for the film Twister, 14 tracks led by Van Halen's "Humans Being" and "Respect the Wind," with Tori Amos, Shania Twain, and Stevie Nicks; separate Mark Mancina score album followed in August 1996.

Twisters (film)

Twisters (2024) is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 film Twister, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell as Oklahoma storm chasers attempting to tame a tornado with polymers; NOAA consulted on the science.

Twisters: The Album

Twisters: The Album is a country music soundtrack for the 2024 film Twisters. It features artists like Luke Combs and Shania Twain, and reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200.

TWISTEX

TWISTEX, the Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in Tornadoes Experiment, was a tornado research project begun in 2007 that placed instrumented probes inside tornadoes and mobile mesonets around them.

Twistoptics

Twistoptics, also called moiré photonics, is a branch of nano-optics studying how the optical properties of stacked periodic structures change when the layers are rotated relative to one another.

Twistor theory

Twistor theory, also known as Penrose Twistor Theory, is a mathematical framework founded by Roger Penrose that recasts spacetime physics in terms of a complex projective twistor space, where points become extended objects.

Twistron

A twistron is a mechanical energy harvester made from twisted and coiled carbon nanotube yarn that converts stretching into electricity, first reported in 2017 by Seon Jeong Kim and Ray Baughman.

Twistronics

Twistronics is the study of how twist angles between stacked two-dimensional materials tune electronic properties, launching from superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in 2018.

Twistzz

Twistzz (Russel Van Dulken, born 1999) is a Canadian Counter-Strike 2 in-game leader and rifler for FaZe Clan; PGL Antwerp 2022 Major winner, two-time Intel Grand Slam winner, six-time HLTV top-20 player. Not the Swedish player twist.

Twitch (service)

Twitch, also known as Twitch.tv, is a live video streaming service owned by Amazon, launched in 2011 as a gaming offshoot of Justin.tv and acquired for $970 million in 2014.

Twitch Plays Pokémon

Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP), a Twitch social experiment launched February 12, 2014 by an anonymous Australian programmer, where chat commands collectively controlled Pokémon Red; 1.16 million players beat it in 16 days with 122 million inputs.

Twitches (film)

Twitches (2005 Disney Channel Original Movie) directed by Stuart Gillard, starring twins Tia and Tamera Mowry as Alex and Camryn, witches reunited on their 21st birthday to save Coventry; sequel Twitches Too (2007).

Twitter

Twitter, rebranded as X in July 2023, is a social network and microblogging platform founded in 2006, acquired by Elon Musk for $44 billion in 2022.

Twitter (disambiguation)

Twitter most commonly refers to the social networking service launched in San Francisco on July 15, 2006, by Jack Dorsey and others, where users post tweets.

Twitter Files

Twitter Files: internal Twitter documents shared by Elon Musk with Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss from December 2022, published as Twitter threads on moderation decisions including the Hunter Biden laptop story; politically polarized reception, FTC scrutiny, and related FOIA litigation.

Twitter suspensions

Twitter suspensions, also known as Twitter bans or X suspensions, are enforcement actions in which the platform blocks an account and hides its profile, posts, and followers from public view.

Twitter under Elon Musk

Twitter under Elon Musk, also known as X under Elon Musk, covers Musk's $44 billion acquisition in October 2022, mass layoffs, paid verification, and the rebrand to X.

Twitter, Inc.

Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company that operated the Twitter short-message platform. Founded in 2006, it was bought by Elon Musk for $44 billion in 2022.

Twix

Twix is a chocolate-coated biscuit bar by Mars, Incorporated. Created in 1967 in Slough, UK, it is sold as twin biscuit fingers with caramel and milk chocolate.

Twixt

Twixt (TwixT) is Alex Randolph's 1957 connection game, published by 3M in 1962: pegs on a 24x24 board linked by knight's moves, with pie rule, link removal, and PSPACE-complete complexity.

Twixt (film)

Twixt (originally Twixt Now and Sunrise) is Francis Ford Coppola's 2011 self-financed gothic horror film starring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, and Elle Fanning, about a writer drawn into a small-town murder mystery through dreams; it grossed $649,835 and was later recut as B'Twixt Now and Sunrise.

Twizel

Twizel, a Mackenzie District town in New Zealand's South Island, was built in 1968 as a Ministry of Works construction town for the Upper Waitaki hydro scheme, peaked above 5,000 residents, was saved from removal, and is now a service and tourist base.

Twiztid

Twiztid is a Detroit horrorcore rap duo formed in 1997 by Jamie Madrox and Monoxide, former House of Krazees members and ICP proteges, now running their own label Majik Ninja Entertainment with charting albums like W.I.C.K.E.D. and Mad Season.