• 文献标题:   Effects of topological defects and local curvature on the electronic properties of planar graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CORTIJO A, VOMEDIANO MAH
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  • 出版物名称:   NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
  • ISSN:   0550-3213 EI 1873-1562
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Carlos III Madrid
  • 被引频次:   140
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.10.031
  • 出版年:   2007

▎ 摘  要

A formalism is proposed to study the electronic and transport properties of graphene sheets with corrugations as the one recently synthesized. The formalism is based on coupling the Dirac equation that models the low energy electronic excitations of clean flat graphene samples to a curved space. A cosmic string analogy allows to treat an arbitrary number of topological defects located at arbitrary positions on the graphene plane. The usual defects that will always be present in any graphene sample as pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects are studied as an example. The local density of states around the defects acquires characteristic modulations that could be observed in scanning tunnel and transmission electron microscopy. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.