Optical phonons in twisted bilayer graphene with gate-induced asymmetric doping

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1203-1210

  Chung, Ting Fung ^a,b   He, Rui ^c   Wu, Tai Lung ^a,b   Chen, Yong P ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

gating; interlayer screening; Raman; Twisted bilayer graphene

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; PHONONS; QUENCHING;

ASYMMETRIC DOPING; CHARGE NEUTRALITY; GATING; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; RAMAN; TWISTED BILAYERS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES; VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES;

GATE DIELECTRICS;

EID: 84922722943     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl504318a     Document Type: Article

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