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Energy Band Gap Modification of Graphene Deposited on a Multilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Substrate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Celal Yelgel  and
Gyaneshwar P. Srivastava
Celal Yelgel
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, U.K.
Gyaneshwar P. Srivastava
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, U.K.
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Abstract

The equilibrium geometry and electronic structure of graphene deposited on a multilayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate has been investigated using the density functional and pseudopotential theories. We found that the energy band gap for the interface between a monolayer graphene (MLG) and a monolayer BN (MLBN) lies between 47 and 62 meV, depending on the relative orientations of the layers. In the most energetically stable configuration the binding energy is found to be approximately 40 meV per C atom. Slightly away from the Dirac point, the dispersion curve is linear, with the electron speed almost identical to that for isolated graphene. The dispersion relation becomes reasonably quadratic for the interface between MLG and 4-layer-BN, with a relative effective mass of 0.0047. While the MLG/MLBN superlattice is metallic, the thinnest armchair nanoribbon of MLG/MLBN interface is semiconducting with a gap of 1.84 eV.

Keywords

electronic structureepitaxyadsorption
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1407: Symposium AA – Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Related Nanostructures , 2012 , mrsf11-1407-aa15-08
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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