Electrical linear control of the electronic structure of graphene quantum dots

摘要

The tight-binding method is employed to investigate the single-electron electronic structure of triangular graphene quantum dots subject to non-uniform electric fields. The specially designed non-uniform electric fields can provide the equal or opposite electrostatic potentials for all edge carbon atoms. The low-energy eigenstates do not vary significantly with the non-uniform electric fields, which allows electrical linear control of the low-energy states. Moreover, the levels of degenerate zero-energy states can be adjusted electrically independently while the levels of nonzero-energy states almost do not vary. This linear control by non-uniform electric fields can be a more efficient way to tune the degenerate zero-energy states. Our findings may be useful for the application of graphene quantum dots to electronic and photovoltaic devices.