Energy gap induced by friedel oscillations manifested as transport asymmetry at Monolayer-Bilayer graphene boundaries

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Clark, Kendal W ^a   Zhang, X G ^a   Gu, Gong ^b   Park, Jewook ^a   He, Guowei ^c   Feenstra, R M ^c   Li, An Ping ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Graphene

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLIDS; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

ASYMMETRIC TRANSPORT; CHARGE OSCILLATION; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; FRIEDEL OSCILLATIONS; INTERFACIAL TRANSPORT; NON EQUILIBRIUM; POTENTIOMETRY; QUANTUM FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84900323059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011021     Document Type: Article

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