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Engineering the electronic structure of graphene superlattices via Fermi velocity modulation

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  • Jonas R.F. Lima

    (Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)

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Graphene superlattices have attracted much research interest in the last years, since it is possible to manipulate the electronic properties of graphene in these structures. It has been verified that extra Dirac points appear in the electronic structure of the system. The electronic structure in the vicinity of these points has been studied for a gapless and gapped graphene superlattice and for a graphene superlattice with a spatially modulated energy gap. In each case a different behavior was obtained. In this work we show that via Fermi velocity engineering it is possible to tune the electronic properties of a graphene superlattice to match all the previous cases studied. We also obtained new features of the system never observed before, reveling that the electronic structure of graphene is very sensitive to the modulation of the Fermi velocity. The results obtained here are relevant for the development of novel graphene-based electronic devices.

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  • Jonas R.F. Lima, 2017. "Engineering the electronic structure of graphene superlattices via Fermi velocity modulation," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 90(1), pages 1-6, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:90:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1140_epjb_e2016-70605-5
    DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2016-70605-5
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