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Interface States in Bilayer Graphene Encapsulated by Hexagonal Boron Nitride.

Kayoung LeeEn-Shao LiuKenji WatanabeTakashi TaniguchiJunghyo Nah
Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces (2018)
The threshold voltages at the onset of conduction for electron and hole branches can provide information on band gap values or interface states in a gap. We measured conductivity of bilayer graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride as a function of back and top gates, where another bilayer graphene is used as a top gate. From the measured conductivity the transport gap values were extracted assuming zero interface trap states, and they are close to the theoretically expected gap values. From a little discrepancy an average density of interface states per energy within a band gap ( Dit) is also estimated. The data clearly show that Dit decreases as a bilayer graphene band gap increases rather than being constant. Despite the decreasing trend of Dit, interestingly the total interface states within a gap increases linearly as a band gap increases. This is because of ∼2 × 1010 cm-2 interface states localized at band edges even without a band gap, and other gap states are equally spread over the gap.
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