Conductance of a disordered graphene superlattice

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作者
Abedpour, N. [1 ]
Esmailpour, Ayoub [2 ,3 ]
Asgari, Reza [3 ]
Tabar, M. Reza Rahimi [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Sharif Univ Technol, Dept Phys, Tehran 113659161, Iran
[2] Shahid Rajaei Univ, Dept Phys, Tehran 16788, Iran
[3] IPM, Inst Res Fundamental Sci, Sch Phys, Tehran 193955531, Iran
[4] Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Phys, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany
关键词
electrical conductivity; graphene; quasiparticles; short-range order; superlattices; MASSLESS DIRAC FERMIONS; KLEIN;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.165412
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We study the conductance of disordered graphene superlattices with short-range structural correlations. The system consists of electron- and hole-doped graphenes of various thicknesses, which fluctuate randomly around their mean value. The effect of the randomness on the probability of transmission through the system of various sizes is studied. We show that in a disordered superlattice the quasiparticle that approaches the barrier interface almost perpendicularly transmits through the system. The conductivity of the finite-size system is computed and shown that the conductance vanishes when the sample size becomes very large, whereas for some specific structures the conductance tends to a nonzero value in the thermodynamic limit.
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