• 文献标题:   Graphene nanoribbons: Photonic crystal waveguide analogy and minigap stripes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BENISTY H
  • 作者关键词:   band structure, graphene, optical waveguide, photonic band gap, photonic crystal
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Paris 11
  • 被引频次:   21
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.79.155409
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbons are one-dimensional multimode systems with quasilinear electron dispersion. We discuss why they are direct analogs of broad photonic crystal waveguides. Three kinds of dispersion regions found in band structure of the latter (Fabry-Perot region, mini-stopband region, and coupled-zone-edge regions) are traced to their equivalent in zigzag graphene nanoribbons whose edges are periodically modified. For a superperiod of similar to 1 nm, the zone folding arising across the nearly linear low-energy part of the electronic dispersion induces these equivalent band structures. A last analogy is the capability to induce a form of localization characterized by minigap stripes and collective flatband edges through a limited modification localized within a pair of edge rows of the nanoribbon, representing typically less than 1% of the ribbon atoms.