• 文献标题:   Moire minibands in graphene heterostructures with almost commensurate root 3 x root 3 hexagonal crystals
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WALLBANK JR, MUCHAKRUCZYNSKI M, FAL KO VI
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Lancaster
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.88.155415
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

We present a phenomenological theory of the low-energy moire minibands of Dirac electrons in graphene placed on an almost commensurate hexagonal underlay with a unit cell approximately three times larger than that of graphene. A slight incommensurability results in a periodically modulated intervalley scattering for electrons in graphene. In contrast to the perfectly commensurate Kekule distortion of graphene, such superlattice perturbation leaves the zero-energy Dirac cones intact, but is able to open a band gap at the edge of the first moire subbands, asymmetrically in the conduction and valence bands.