Nature Communications (Feb 2017)
Edge currents shunt the insulating bulk in gapped graphene
- M. J. Zhu,
- A. V. Kretinin,
- M. D. Thompson,
- D. A. Bandurin,
- S. Hu,
- G. L. Yu,
- J. Birkbeck,
- A. Mishchenko,
- I. J. Vera-Marun,
- K. Watanabe,
- T. Taniguchi,
- M. Polini,
- J. R. Prance,
- K. S. Novoselov,
- A. K. Geim,
- M. Ben Shalom
Affiliations
- M. J. Zhu
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- A. V. Kretinin
- National Graphene Institute, The University of Manchester
- M. D. Thompson
- Department of Physics, University of Lancaster
- D. A. Bandurin
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- S. Hu
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- G. L. Yu
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- J. Birkbeck
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- A. Mishchenko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- I. J. Vera-Marun
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- K. Watanabe
- National Institute for Materials Science
- T. Taniguchi
- National Institute for Materials Science
- M. Polini
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs
- J. R. Prance
- Department of Physics, University of Lancaster
- K. S. Novoselov
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- A. K. Geim
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- M. Ben Shalom
- School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14552
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
The absence of a bandgap in the electronic spectrum of graphene can be overcome by breaking its lattice symmetry. The authors show that the insulating state of gapped graphene is electrically shorted by narrow edge channels exhibiting high conductivity.
