Peierls-Type Instability and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene

Functionalizing graphene was recently shown to have a dramatic effect on the electronic properties of this material. Here we investigate spatial ordering of adatoms driven by the RKKY-type interactions. In the ordered state, which arises via a Peierls-instability-type mechanism, the adatoms reside m...

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Main Authors: Abanin, Dmitry A., Shytov, A. V., Levitov, Leonid
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88510
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4268-731X