• 文献标题:   Observation of a Dirac point in microwave experiments with a photonic crystal modeling graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BITTNER S, DIETZ B, MISKIOGLU M, IRIARTE PO, RICHTER A, SCHAFER F
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tech Univ Darmstadt
  • 被引频次:   74
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014301
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

We present measurements of transmission and reflection spectra of a microwave photonic crystal composed of 874 metallic cylinders arranged in a triangular lattice. The spectra show clear evidence of a Dirac point, a characteristic of a spectrum of relativistic massless fermions. In fact, Dirac points are a peculiar property of the electronic band structure of graphene, whose properties consequently can be described by the relativistic Dirac equation. In the vicinity of the Dirac point, the measured reflection spectra resemble those obtained by conductance measurements in scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene flakes.