How water makes graphene metallic |
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Authors: | Michael Hernández Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca Maurice Oliva-Leyva Gerardo G Naumis |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Física Teórica, Facultad de Física, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba;2. Departamento de Física Teórica, Instituto de Cibernética, Matemática y Física (ICIMAF), La Habana, Cuba;3. Departamento de Física, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 14-740, C.P. 07000, Ciudad de México, Mexico;4. Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, C.P. 01000, Ciudad de México, Mexico |
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Abstract: | A simple explanation is given on the tendency of graphene to become metallic when the amount of doped water is increased, an effect which was previously obtained from ab initio band calculations. It is clarified how the effect is mainly determined by oriented water electric dipoles, which create a step like potential at the separation distance between graphene and water planes. By using perturbation theory and an effective potential coupled with a image-charge tail potential, we showed that under increasing the water doping, the lowest energy free band in graphene starts lowering their energies by approaching to the Fermi level. Moreover, we demonstrated that this crossing induces a huge increase of states at the Fermi level, an effect akin to the magic-angle flat-band appearance in bilayer graphene. |
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Keywords: | Corresponding author Graphene Water dipoles Nearly free electron band Image-potential states |
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