Min, H.
and MacDonald, A.
(2009),
Origin of Universal Optical Conductivity and Optical Stacking Sequence Identification in Multilayer Graphene, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=902107
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Origin of Universal Optical Conductivity and Optical Stacking Sequence Identification in Multilayer Graphene
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, Allan H. MacDonald
Abstract
We predict that the optical conductivity of normal graphene multilayers is close to ςuni=(π/2) e2/h per layer over a broad range of frequencies. The origin of this behavior is an emergent chiral symmetry which is present in normal N-layer stacks when small distant neighbor hopping amplitudes are neglected, and implies that ς (ω) =Nςuni in both low and high frequency limits. We discuss the possibility of obtaining useful information about stacking sequences from optical conductivity measurements.Citation
Physical Review Letters
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103
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Graphene, Optical measurements
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Created August 6, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017