NANOSYSTEMS: PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS, 2016, 7 (1), P. 58–59
Phenomenology of ripples in graphene
S. A. Ktitorov – Ioffe Institute; St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI, St. Petersburg, Russia; ktitorov@mail.ioffe.ru
R. I. Mukhamadiarov – Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
The ripples are considered an incommensurate superstructure in a two-dimensional crystal, appearing as a result of the formation of periodic solutions in an in-plane optical phonon subsystem. The possible instability of the flexural subsystem is also discussed.
Keywords: Landau functional, graphene, ripples, incommensurate, curvature.
PACS 68.65.Pq
DOI 10.17586/2220-8054-2016-7-1-58-59