Electrons in bilayer graphene

Edward McCann; David S L Abergel; Vladimir I. Fal'ko

doi:10.1016/j.ssc.2007.03.054

Electrons in bilayer graphene

Edward McCann, David S L Abergel^*, Vladimir I. Fal'ko

^*Corresponding author for this work

Lancaster University

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Abstract

Electrons in bilayer graphene possess an unusual property: they are chiral quasiparticles characterized by Berry phase 2 π. We review the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene which determines the band structure and low-energy quasiparticle properties of this material and we describe the optical manifestation of the existence of a pair of split-bands and low-energy branches in the bilayer spectrum. Then, we analyze the stability of a bilayer with respect to a ferroelectric transition and we model the self-consistent control of the interlayer asymmetry gap induced by a transverse electric field in a graphene-based field-effect transistor.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	110-115
Number of pages	6
Journal	Solid State Communications
Volume	143
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2007.03.054
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007

Keywords

A. Nanostructures
D. Electronic band structure
D. Electronic transport
D. Optical properties

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