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Electron-Phonon Interactions in Bilayer Graphene: A First Principles Approach

2010/11/24 by K. M. Borysenko, Borysenko, K. M., Jeffrey T. Mullen +11
Materials Science · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Thermal properties of materials

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.5521

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Abstract

Density functional perturbation theory is used to analyze electron-phonon interaction in bilayer graphene. The results show that phonon scattering in bilayer graphene bears more resemblance with bulk graphite than monolayer graphene. In particular, electron-phonon scattering in the lowest conduction band is dominated by six lowest (acoustic and acoustic-like) phonon branches with only minor contributions from optical modes. The total scattering rate at low/moderate electron energies can be described by a simple two-phonon model in the deformation potential approximation with effective constants Dac ≈ 15 eV and Dop ≈ 2.8 × 108 eV/cm for acoustic and optical phonons, respectively. With much enhanced acoustic phonon scattering, the low field mobility of bilayer graphene is expected to be significantly smaller than that of monolayer graphene.

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