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The interlayer twist angle is an important parameter that can tune the physical properties of graphene in a wide wavelength range. In this paper, we employ an effective continuum model to calculate the band structure of twisted bilayer graphene with different twist angles in the presence and absence of vertical electric field. Based on the transition rate of the electron-photon interaction, we calculate and simulate the optical absorption spectra caused by the interband and intraband transitions around the van Hove singularities. The calculation results show that the optical absorption caused by the interband transitions occurs in the wavelength range from visible light to near-infrared while it appears in far-infrared for intraband transitions. The optical absorption coefficient of the intra-band transitions is almost two orders of magnitude larger than that of inter-band transitions. In the absence of an external electric field, as the twist angle increases, the absorption peak of the inter band transition moves from the infrared light band to the visible light band, but the resonant peak position of its intra-band transition does not change. At the same time, the absorption coefficient values corresponding to the above two transitions will increase. When an electric field is applied perpendicular to the twisted bilayer graphene, the symmetry of the initial band structure of bilayer graphene is destroyed, which results in the splitting of the absorption peaks associated the with interband transitions, and the distance between the two splitting peaks increases with the electric field intensity increasing; while the position and amplitude of the absorption peak associated with the intraband transition are completely unaffected by the applied electric field. The theoretical calculation results in this paper can provide the theoretical guidance for further applying twisted graphene to optoelectronic devices such as tunable dual-band filters.
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Keywords:
- optical absorption /
- bilayer graphene /
- twist angle /
- external electric field
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图 3 无外电场时四个扭转角度下tBLG的能带结构图 (a) θ = 3.89°; (b) θ = 5.09°; (c) θ = 7.34°; (d) θ = 9.43°. 其中红色(蓝色)箭头表示可能发生的带间(带内)跃迁, 蓝色虚线为费米面
Figure 3. The energy band structure of TBG at four twisted angles without electric field: (a) θ = 3.89°; (b) θ = 5.09°; (c) θ = 7.34°; (d) θ = 9.43°. Red (blue) arrow is the possible interband (intraband) transitions, and the dashed blue line shows the Fermi level.
图 5 不同外加电场下tBLG的能带结构图(θ = 3.89°) (a) U = 0 meV; (b) U = 40 meV; (c) U = 60 meV; (d) U = 100 meV. 其中箭头表示可能发生的带间或者带内跃迁, 蓝色虚线为费米面, 黑色虚线表示范霍夫奇点的位置
Figure 5. The energy band structure of tBLG at θ = 3.89° with or without electric field: (a) U = 0 meV; (b) U = 40 meV (c) U = 60 meV; (d) U = 100 meV. The arrows are the possible interband (intraband) transitions, and the dashed blue line shows the Fermi level, and the dashed black lines are the positions of VHS.
图 6 不同电场强度下tBLG范霍夫奇点附近的光学吸收谱, 三种扭转角度下的带间跃迁吸收谱(左列)和带内跃迁吸收谱(右列) (a), (b) θ = 3.89°; (c), (d) θ = 6.01°; (e), (f) θ = 9.43°
Figure 6. Optical spectra for tBLG around VHS with different perpendicular electric field intensities, and optical spectra for interband transitions (left column) and Optical spectrums for intraband transitions (right column) under three twist angles: (a), (b) θ = 3.89°; (c), (d) θ = 6.01°; (e), (f) θ = 9.43°.
表 1 不同电场强度下tBLG能带结构几个关键点的位置及带间能级差(θ = 3.89°)
Table 1. Positions of key points and energy level differences (θ = 3.89°) in the band structure of tBLG under different electric field intensities.
U/meV VHS奇点位置 带间跃迁能级差 带内跃迁能级差 k1/ΔK k2/ΔK ΔEα1/eV ΔEα2/eV ΔEβ/eV 0 0 0 0.7550 0.7550 0.11 20 –0.015 0.015 0.7511 0.7588 0.1101 40 –0.030 0.030 0.7306 0.7692 0.1101 60 –0.040 0.040 0.7289 0.7810 0.11 80 –0.055 0.055 0.7124 0.7976 0.11 100 –0.065 0.065 0.6977 0.8124 0.11 -
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