Optical conductivity, Drude weight and plasmons in twisted graphene bilayers

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Stauber, Tobias ^a   San Jose, Pablo ^b   Brey, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MODELING; DENSITY OF STATE; GRAPHENE BILAYERS; IMAGINARY PARTS; LOSS FUNCTIONS; SHELL STRUCTURE; TWISTED BILAYERS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84889772630     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/11/113050     Document Type: Article

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