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Optical absorption spectrum of rotated trilayer graphene

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Using ab initio calculations we have studied the optical linear response of different configurations of twisted trilayer graphene systems. We have found that when one of the outer layers is rotated the system shows an angle-dependent optical spectrum as its twisted bilayer counterpart; however, in this case there are two absorption peaks located in the visible range of the spectrum and one more in the intermediate infrared range for large relative rotation angles. When two layers are rotated the spectrum exhibits only two absorption peaks in the visible range revealing information about the two relative rotation angles between the layers in the structure. All these absorption peaks in the visible range shift to the intermediate infrared range for small angles.

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  1. A rotated unit cell around 14.5° contains more than 1600 atoms making unviable a DFT calculation. We have calculated instead the closest in angle and smallest commensurate unit cell

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E. S. M. acknowledges DGIP/USM for the internal Grant 111217 M P thanks FONDECYT Grant 1100672 and DGIP/USM internal Grant 111162. J. D. C thanks project Grid Colombia-UdeM.

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    Julian D. Correa

  2. Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 100-V, Valparaiso, Chile

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Correa, J.D., Pacheco, M. & Morell, E.S. Optical absorption spectrum of rotated trilayer graphene. J Mater Sci 49, 642–647 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7744-4

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