• 文献标题:   Transport Properties of Graphene Nanoroads in Boron Nitride Sheets
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JUNG J, QIAO ZH, NIU Q, MACDONALD AH
  • 作者关键词:   hboron nitride, graphene ribbon, 1d conducting state, kink state, ballistic transport
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Texas Austin
  • 被引频次:   67
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl300610w
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We demonstrate that the one-dimensional (1D) transport channels that appear in the gap when graphene nanoroads are embedded in boron nitride (BN) sheets are more robust when they are inserted at AB/BA grain boundaries. Our conclusions are based on ab initio electronic structure calculations for a variety of different crystal orientations and bonding arrangements at the BN/C interfaces. This property is related to the valley Hall conductivity present in the BN band structure and to the topologically protected kink states that appear in continuum Dirac models with position-dependent masses.