• 文献标题:   Stability and electronic properties of bilayer graphene spirals
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   THAKUR R, AHLUWALIA PK, KUMAR A, SHARMA R
  • 作者关键词:   graphene spiral, electronic propertie, rashbasplitting, thermodynamical stability, bandsplitting
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2021.114638 EA JAN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Spiral topology offers many potential applications to next-generation nanoelectronic devices. The ab-initio simulations are used to investigate the stability and electronic properties of the hexagonal and triangular double-layer spiral (DLS). A room temperature molecular dynamics (MD) simulation reveals that the AA stacking of triangular DLS (t-DLS) is thermodynamically stable, however, the AA stacking of hexagonal DLS (h-DLS)is found to get distorted. When h-DLS and t-DLS are subjected to tensile strain the h-DLS behaved elastically, however, the t-DLS is extremely brittle. Both h-DLS and t-DLS are observed to be metallic in an equilibrium state. On applying an electric field, the h-DLS remains metallic, whereas, the t-DLS becomes a semiconductor. The bandgap of t-DLS is observed to open up even for a small magnitude of electric field. Furthermore, we also found that the triangular-shaped bilayer spiral topology gives rise to an intrinsic Rashba splitting. Our study opens up new and innovative ideas for investigating the spiral-shaped nano-structures.