Novel properties of graphene in the presence of energy gap: optics, transport and mobility studies

TL;DR

This paper explores the effects of an energy gap in graphene on optical transmission, electron transport, and mobility, revealing suppressed perfect transmission, enhanced mobility in nanoribbons, and modified plasmonic behavior.

Contribution

It provides new insights into how an energy gap influences graphene's optical, transport, and plasmonic properties, including nonlinear transport thresholds and field-induced effects.

Findings

Suppressed perfect transmission in gapped states.

Enhanced mobility in graphene nanoribbons.

Modified plasmon and electron-hole continuum features.

Abstract

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in inffnite graphene is suppressed in gapped dressed states of electrons. We also present our results on enhanced mobility of hot Dirac electrons in nanoribbons and magnetoplasmons in graphene in the presence of the energy gap. The calculated carrier mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of the bias field possesses a high threshold for entering the nonlinear transport regime. This threshold is a function of both extrinsic and intrinsic properties, such as lattice temperature, linear density, impurity scattering strength, ribbon width, and correlation length for the line-edge roughness. Analysis of non-equilibrium carrier distribution function confirms that the difference between linear and nonlinear transport is due to sweeping electrons from the right to left Fermi one through elastic scattering as well as moving electrons from low to high-energy ones through field-induced heating. The plasmons, as well as the electron-hole continuum are determined by both energy gap and the magnetic field, showing very specific features, which have been studied and discussed in details.