• 文献标题:   Anisotropic minimal conductivity of graphene bilayers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MOGHADDAM AG, ZAREYAN M
  • 作者关键词:   ballistic transport, conduction band, electrical conductivity, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Inst Adv Studies Basic Sci
  • 被引频次:   16
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.79.073401
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

The Fermi line of bilayer graphene at zero energy is transformed into four separated points positioned trigonally at the corner of the hexagonal first Brillouin zone. We show that as a result of this trigonal splitting the minimal conductivity of an undoped bilayer graphene strip becomes anisotropic with respect to the orientation theta of the connected electrodes and finds a dependence on its length L on the characteristic scale center dot=pi/Delta k similar or equal to 50 nm determined by the inverse of k-space distance of two Dirac points. The minimum conductivity increases from a universal isotropic value sigma(min)(perpendicular to)=(8/pi)e(2)/h for a short strip L

center dot varies from (7/3)sigma(min)(perpendicular to) at theta=0 to 3 sigma(min)(perpendicular to) over an angle range Delta theta similar to center dot/L.