Single-layer and bilayer graphene superlattices: Collimation, additional Dirac points and Dirac lines

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1932, 2010, Pages 5499-5524

  Barbier, Michaël ^a   Vasilopoulos, Panagiotis ^b   Peeters, François M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electron transport; Graphene; Two dimensional crystals

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; BI-LAYER; DIRAC POINT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON VELOCITY; ENERGY SPECTRA; FERMI VELOCITIES; FINITE NUMBER; GRAPHENES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERLATTICES; PERIODIC FUNCTION; RENORMALIZATION; SINGLE LAYER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS; TYPE II;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 78650087199     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0218     Document Type: Review

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