Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol.401, 869-873, 2014
Influence of a parallel electric field on the dispersion relation of graphene - A new route to Dirac logics
Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of an electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene, on its electron dispersion relations close to the K point. It was shown that for both single layer and AAAA stacking multilayer graphene under an influence of a parallel field the dispersion relations transform to nonlinear ones. The effect, associated with the hexagonal symmetry breaking, opens a new route to high speed transistors and logical devices working in the Dirac regime. The implementation of such a device is presented below. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.