• 文献标题:   Mesoscopic electronic transport in twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HAN YL, ZENG JJ, REN YF, DONG XL, REN W, QIAO ZH
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.101.235432
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene leads to upper and lower graphene layers separately, we explore systematically the dependence of electronic transport on the twist angle, Fermi energy, system size, layer stacking order, and twist axis. When choosing different twist axes for either AA- or AB-stacked bilayer graphene, we find that the dependence of conductance on twist angle displays qualitatively distinction, i.e., the systems with "top" axis exhibit finite conductance oscillating as a function of the twist angle, while the ones with "hollow" axis exhibit nearly vanishing conductance for different twist angles near the charge neutrality point. These findings suggest that the choice of twist axis can effectively tune the interlayer conductance, making it a crucial factor in designing of nanodevices with the twisted van der Waals multilayers.