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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series > Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins
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If you have a question about this talk, please contact div-c. I will begin with a brief account of the computational methodology used in calculations. We divide calculations into three main steps: a first harmonic step aimed at building a pattern of defects into the lattice followed by a fully-nonlinear relaxation, and as a final step we investigate charge-carrier transmission across the structures that spontaneously arise in the graphene layer. Then, I will evaluate a number of point defect configurations in monolayer graphene and document different accommodation mechanisms. Finally, I will show that the transport gap of twinned graphene can be tuned through the application of a uniaxial strain in the direction normal to the twin band. Remarkably, we find that the transport gap Egap bears a square-root dependence on the control parameter εx −εc, where εx is the applied uniaxial strain and εc ∼ 19% is a critical strain. We interpret this dependence as evidence of criticality underlying a continuous phase transition, with εx−εc playing the role of control parameter and the transport gap Egap playing the role of order parameter. For εx < εc, the transport gap is non-zero and the material is semiconductor, whereas for εx > εc the transport gap closes to zero and the material becomes conductor, which evinces a semiconductor-to-conductor phase transition. The computed critical exponent of 1/2 places the transition in the meanfield universality class, which enables far-reaching analogies with other systems in the same class. This talk is part of the Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series series. This talk is included in these lists:
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