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Transport fingerprints at graphene superlattice Dirac points induced by a boron nitride substrate
Martínez Gordillo, Rafael (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Roche, Stephan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Ortmann, Frank (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Pruneda, Miguel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)

Date: 2014
Abstract: We report peculiar transport fingerprints at the secondary Dirac points created by the interaction between graphene and boron nitride layers. By performing ab initio calculations, the electronic characteristics of the moiré patterns produced by the interaction between layers are first shown to be in good agreement with experimental data, and further used to calibrate the tight-binding model implemented for the transport study. By means of a real-space order-N quantum transport (Kubo) methodology, low-energy (Dirac point) transport properties are contrasted with those of high-energy (secondary) Dirac points, including both Anderson disorder and Gaussian impurities to respectively mimic short-range and long-range scattering potentials. Mean free paths at the secondary Dirac points are found to range from 10 nm to a few hundreds of nm depending on the static disorder, while the observation of satellite resistivity peaks depends on the strength of quantum interferences and localization effects.
Grants: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MAT2012-33911
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación FIS2009-12721-C04-01
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CSD2007-00041
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca FI-2011
Rights: Tots els drets reservats.
Language: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Published in: Physical review B : Condensed matter and materials physics, Vol. 89, issue 16 (April 2014) , art. 161401, ISSN 1550-235X

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.161401


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