• 文献标题:   Resonant transport in Kekule-distorted graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ANDRADE E, CARRILLOBASTOS R, PANTALEON PA, MIRELES F
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-8979 EI 1089-7550
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Autonoma Baja California
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.5133091
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The formation of a superlattice in graphene can serve as a way to modify its electronic band structure and thus to engineer its electronic transport properties. Recent experiments have discovered a Kekule bond ordering in graphene deposited on top of a copper substrate, leading to the breaking of the valley degeneracy while preserving the highly desirable feature of linearity and gapless character of its band dispersion. In this paper, we study the effects of a Kekule distortion in zigzag graphene nanoribbons in both the subband spectrum and on its electronic transport properties. We extend our study to also investigate the electronic conductance in graphene nanoribbons composed of sequentially ordered nu=+/- 1 Kek-Y superlattices. We find interesting resonances in the conductance response emerging in the otherwise energy gap regions, which scales with the number of Kek-Y interfaces minus one. Such features resemble the physics of resonant tunneling behavior observed in semiconductor heterostructures. Our findings provide a possible way to measure the strength of the Kekule parameter in graphene nanoribbons.