• 文献标题:   Long-Range Rhombohedral-Stacked Graphene through Shear
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NERY JP, CALANDRA M, MAURI F
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, rhombohedral, longrange abc order, shear stres, bernal, density functional theory, friction
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Fdn Ist Italiaizo Tecnol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01146
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The discovery of superconductivity and correlated electronic states in the flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene has raised a lot of excitement. Flat bands also occur in multilayer graphene flakes that present rhombohedral (ABC) stacking order on many consecutive layers. Although Bernal-stacked (AB) graphene is more stable, long-range ABC-ordered flakes involving up to 50 layers have been surprisingly observed in natural samples. Here, we present a microscopic atomistic model, based on first-principles density functional theory calculations, that demonstrates how shear stress can produce long-range ABC order. A stress-angle phase diagram shows under which conditions ABC-stacked graphene can be obtained, providing an experimental guide for its synthesis.