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Disorder induced field effect transistor in bilayer and trilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2013-02-18 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We propose use of disorder to produce a field effect transistor (FET) in biased bilayer and trilayer graphene. Modulation of the bias voltage can produce large variations in the conductance when the disorder's effects are confined to only one of the graphene layers. This effect is based on the bias voltage's ability to select which of the graphene layers carries current, and is not tied to the presence of a gap in the density of states. In particular, we demonstrate this effect in models of gapless ABA-stacked trilayer graphene, gapped ABC-stacked trilayer graphene, and gapped bilayer graphene.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6393,
  title  = {Disorder induced field effect transistor in bilayer and trilayer graphene},
  author = {Dongwei Xu and Haiwen Liu and Vincent Sacksteder and Juntao Song and Hua Jiang and Qing-feng Sun and X. C. Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6393},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages, 7 figures