Carrier transport simulations in twisted bilayer and turbostratic multilayer graphene systems

Abstract

Abstract The effects of inserting a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) between turbostratic graphene layers and a SiO2 substrate on the transport properties are investigated, to explore the possibility that using a tBLG could be an effective way to screen the potential fluctuations due to the impurities on the substrate. The Fermi velocity in a tBLG changes from that of the pristine graphene depending on the twist angle. In the present study, a parameter α is introduced, which is defined as the ratio of the Fermi velocity in the tBLG to that of pristine graphene, and the transport properties are calculated as a function of α. The self-consistent calculation of the Poisson equation with the Thomas-Fermi approximation is performed for multilayer graphene systems consisting of a tBLG and turbostratic graphene layers, and the potential profiles are incorporated into a Monte Carlo simulator to calculate the drift velocities and mobilities. It is shown that the transport properties of the whole system strongly depend on the parameter α and the number of layers in the system.