Electronic properties of bilayer sheets forming moiré patterns

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Autori principali: Wu-Mei, W. S., Rey-González, R. R.
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author Wu-Mei, W. S.
Rey-González, R. R.
author_facet Wu-Mei, W. S.
Rey-González, R. R.
contents In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic structures, known as moiré patterns. Using a semi-empirical tight-binding approach with a parametrized hopping parameter between the layers, using one orbital per-site approximation, and taking into account nearest-neighbor interactions only, we found he electronic dispersion relations to be around K points in a low energy approximation. Our results show that graphene bilayers exhibit zero band gap for all angles tested in this work. In boron nitride bilayers, the results reveal a tunable bandgap that satisfies the prediction of the bandgap found in one-dimensional diatomic systems presented in the literature.
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spellingShingle Electronic properties of bilayer sheets forming moiré patterns
Wu-Mei, W. S.
Rey-González, R. R.
Soft Condensed Matter
In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic structures, known as moiré patterns. Using a semi-empirical tight-binding approach with a parametrized hopping parameter between the layers, using one orbital per-site approximation, and taking into account nearest-neighbor interactions only, we found he electronic dispersion relations to be around K points in a low energy approximation. Our results show that graphene bilayers exhibit zero band gap for all angles tested in this work. In boron nitride bilayers, the results reveal a tunable bandgap that satisfies the prediction of the bandgap found in one-dimensional diatomic systems presented in the literature.
title Electronic properties of bilayer sheets forming moiré patterns
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15529