• 文献标题:   Strain-Induced Pseudomagnetic Field for Novel Graphene Electronics
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LOW T, GUINEA F
  • 作者关键词:   pseudomagnetic field, strained graphene, quantum hall, valleytronic, transport gap
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Purdue Univ
  • 被引频次:   162
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl1018063
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Particular strain geometry in graphene could lead to a uniform pseudomagnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nanoelectronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained graphene flakes of sizes of 100 nm, we examine possible means of exploiting this effect for practical electronics and valleytronics devices. First, we found that elastic backscattering at rough edges leads to the formation of well-defined transport gaps of order 100 meV under moderate maximum strain of 10%. Second, the application of a real magnetic field induced a separation, in space and energy, of the states arising from different valleys, leading to a way of inducing bulk valley polarization which is insensitive to short-range scattering.