Quantum Hall effect in graphene with twisted bilayer stripe defects
Journal article, 2013

We analyze the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene with bilayer stripe defects. Such defects are often encountered at steps in the substrate of graphene grown on silicon carbide. We show that AB or AA stacked bilayer stripes result in large Hall conductivity fluctuations that destroy the quantum Hall plateaux. The fluctuations are a result of the coupling of edge states at opposite edges through currents traversing the stripe. Upon rotation of the second layer with respect to the continuous monolayer (a twisted-bilayer stripe defect), such currents decouple from the extended edge states and develop into long-lived discrete quasibound states circulating around the perimeter of the stripe. Backscattering of edge modes then occurs only at precise resonant energies, and hence the quantum Hall plateaux are recovered as twist angle grows.

silicon-carbide

transistors

wafer-scale

transport

layers

epitaxial graphene

berrys phase

Author

Tomas Löfwander

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics

P. San-Jose

E. Prada

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

24699950 (ISSN) 24699969 (eISSN)

Vol. 87 20 205429

New Electronics Concept: Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene (ConceptGraphene)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/257829), 2010-10-01 -- 2013-09-30.

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.87.205429

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