• 文献标题:   Energy minibands degeneration induced by magnetic field effects in graphene superlattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   REYESVILLAGRANA RA, CARRERAESCOBEDO VH, SUAREZLOPEZ JR, MADRIGALMELCHOR J, RODRIGUEZVARGAS I
  • 作者关键词:   graphene superlattice, energy miniband, magnetic field effect
  • 出版物名称:   SUPERLATTICES MICROSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   0749-6036
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Autonoma Zacatecas
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.spmi.2017.10.014
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Energy minibands are a basic feature of practically any superlattice. In this regard graphene superlattices are not the exception and recently miniband transport has been reported through magneto-transport measurements. In this work, we compute the energy mini band and transport characteristics for graphene superlattices in which the energy barriers are generated by magnetic and electric fields. The transfer matrix approach and the Landauer-Buttiker formalism have been implemented to calculate the energy minibands and the linear-regime conductance. We find that energy minibands are very sensitive to the magnetic field and become degenerate by rising it. We were also able to correlate the evolution of the energy minibands as a function of the magnetic field with the transport characteristics, finding that miniband transport can be destroyed by magnetic field effects. Here, it is important to remark that although magnetic field effects have been a key element to unveil miniband transport, they can also destroy it. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.