Space dependent Fermi velocity in strained graphene

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  De Juan, Fernando ^a   Sturla, Mauricio ^b   Vozmediano, María A H ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANT; ELASTICITY THEORY; FERMI VELOCITIES; GAUGE FIELDS; LOCAL PROBES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRAIN TENSOR; TIGHT BINDING; TIGHT-BINDING APPROACHES;

ELASTICITY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84861808495     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.227205     Document Type: Article

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