• 文献标题:   Tight-binding description of patterned graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GHAREKHANLOU B, ALAVI M, KHORASANI S
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  • 出版物名称:   SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0268-1242 EI 1361-6641
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sharif Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1088/0268-1242/23/7/075026
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

The existence of an energy gap of graphene is vital as far as nano-electronic applications such as nano-transistors are concerned. In this paper, we present a method for introducing arbitrary energy gaps through breaking the symmetry point group of graphene. We investigate the tight-binding approximation for the dispersion of pi and pi* electronic bands in patterned graphene including up to five nearest neighbors. As we show by applying special defects in graphene structure, an energy gap appears at Dirac points and the effective mass of fermions also becomes a function of the number of defects per unit cell.