Observation of an electrically tunable band gap in trilayer graphene

By C. Lui, Zhiqiang Li, K. Mak, E. Cappelluti, T. Heinz. 2011

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Monolayer graphene has no electronic band gap. Bilayer graphene does, and can be controlled by an electric field. And for trilayer graphene, infrared transmission measurements indicate both situations are possible depending on the stacking of the layers.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

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