Phonon dispersions and vibrational properties of monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene

Details Phonon dispersions and vibrational properties of monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene Phonon dispersions and vibrational properties of monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene

2009-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/0901.3093v1

Phys. Rev. B 77, 125401 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

8 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125401

The phonon dispersions of monolayer and few-layer graphene (AB bilayer, ABA and ABC trilayers) are investigated using the density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT). Compared with the monolayer, the optical phonon $E_{2g}$ mode at $\Gamma$ splits into two and three doubly degenerate branches for bilayer and trilayer graphene, respectively, due to the weak interlayer coupling. These modes are of various symmetry and exhibit different sensitivity to either Raman or infrared (IR) measurements (or both). The splitting is found to be 5 cm$^{-1}$ for bilayer and 2 to 5 cm$^{-1}$ for trilayer graphene. The interlayer coupling is estimated to be about 2 cm$^{-1}$. We found that the highest optical modes at K move up by about 12 cm$^{-1}$ for bilayer and 18 cm$^{-1}$ for trilayer relative to monolayer graphene. The atomic displacements of these optical eigenmodes are analyzed.

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