• 文献标题:   Evidence of Lifshitz Transition in the Thermoelectric Power of Ultrahigh-Mobility Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JAYARAMAN A, HSIEH K, GHAWRI B, MAHAPATRA PS, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, GHOSH A
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, thermopower, lifshitz transition, tight binding
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03586 EA JAN 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Resolving low-energy features in the density of states (DOS) holds the key to understanding a wide variety of rich novel phenomena in graphene-based 2D heterostructures. The Lifshitz transition in bilayer graphene (BLG) arising from trigonal warping has been established theoretically and experimentally. Nevertheless, the experimental realization of its effects on transport properties has been challenging because of its relatively low energy scale (similar to 1 meV). In this work, we demonstrate that the thermoelectric power (TEP) can be used as an effective probe to investigate fine changes in the DOS of BLG. We observed additional entropy features in the vicinity of the charge neutrality point (CNP) in gapped BLG. This apparent violation of the Mott formula can be explained quantitatively by considering the effects of trigonal warping, thereby serving as possible evidence of a Lifshitz transition.