Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac9f50
Keywords
electronic properties; transport properties; bilayer graphene; nanoribbons; defects
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This study investigates the effects of defect clustering on the electronic and transport properties of bilayer graphene nanoribbons. The researchers observe evident vacancy concentration signatures around the zero-energy level, regardless of system size, stacking, and boundary types. The results indicate that the strong sizeable vacancy clustering effect and the breaking of inversion symmetry at high vacancy densities play a crucial role in explaining this phenomenon.
Experimental realizations of two-dimensional materials are hardly free of structural defects such as e.g. vacancies, which, in turn, modify drastically its pristine physical defect-free properties. In this work, we explore effects due to point defect clustering on the electronic and transport properties of bilayer graphene nanoribbons, for AA and AB stacking and zigzag and armchair boundaries, by means of the tight-binding approach and scattering matrix formalism. Evident vacancy concentration signatures exhibiting a maximum amplitude and an universality regardless of the system size, stacking and boundary types, in the density of states around the zero-energy level are observed. Our results are explained via the coalescence analysis of the strong sizeable vacancy clustering effect in the system and the breaking of the inversion symmetry at high vacancy densities, demonstrating a similar density of states for two equivalent degrees of concentration disorder, below and above the maximum value.
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