Electronic and Electrical Conductivity of AB and AA-Stacked Bilayer Graphene with Tunable Layer Separation

This humble work attempts to study the electronic and electrical conductivity characteristics of AB and AAstacked bilayer graphene (BLG) sheet, by using ab initio calculation. The electronic transport coefficient was calculated by using Boltzmann transport equations implanted in Boltztrap package at various temperatures from 80 to 380 K. First, this study will begin to experiment an interlayer spacing from 3.55 and 3.35 Å respectively for AA and AB-BLG. If the distance between the layers is more than 5.00 Å, the increase or decrease of energy does depend on the interlayer spacing so band gap is equal to zero. The electrical conductivity of AA and AB-BLG is compared to the experimental electrical conductivity of graphene monolayer under increasing spacing between layers to 4.00 Å. Band gap decreases with the increasing space while conductivity increases with increasing space. AA-BLG electrical conductivity shows a value near to the experimental electrical conductivity of graphene ribbon for 4.00 Å at 380 K. Nevertheless, the distance variation does not much affect the electronic and electrical characteristics of AB-BLG. In addition, the increase between the interlayer distances does not influence so much the electrical conductivity. Therefore, increasing the distance between interlayers decreases the electrical conductivity due to the increasing of band gap.