• 文献标题:   Band gaps in incommensurable graphene on hexagonal boron nitride
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BOKDAM M, AMLAKI T, BROCKS G, KELLY PJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Twente
  • 被引频次:   55
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.89.201404
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Devising ways of opening a band gap in graphene to make charge-carrier masses finite is essential for many applications. Recent experiments with graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) offer tantalizing hints that the weak interaction with the substrate is sufficient to open a gap, in contradiction of earlier findings. Using many-body perturbation theory, we find that the small observed gap is what remains after a much larger underlying quasiparticle gap is suppressed by incommensurability. The sensitivity of this suppression to a small modulation of the distance separating graphene from the substrate suggests ways of exposing the larger underlying gap.