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The supercell approach enables us to treat the electronic structure of defective crystals, but the calculated energy bands are too complicated to understand or to compare with angle-resolved photoemission spectra because of inevitable zone folding. We discuss how to visualize supercell band structures more effectively by incorporating in them unfolded spectral weights and orbital decompositions. We then apply these ideas to gain a better understanding of the band structure of graphene containing various types of points defects, including nitrogen impurity, hydrogen adsorbate, and vacancy defect, and also the Stone-Wales defect., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, published (author-created un-copyedited version)

We use the non-interacting tight-binding model to study the effect of isolated hydrogen adsorbates on the quasiparticle spectra of single-layer graphene. Using the Green's function approach, we obtain analytic expressions for the local density of states and the spectral function of hydrogen-doped graphene, which are also numerically evaluated and plotted. Our results are relevant for the interpretation of scanning tunneling microscopy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy data of functionalized graphene., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, minor corrections to text

We study the effect of uniaxial strain on the electronic band structure of gapped graphene. We consider two types of gapped graphene, one which breaks the symmetry between the two triangular sublattices (staggered model), and another which alternates the bonds on the honeycomb lattice (Kekul\'e model). In the staggered model, the effect of strains below a critical value is only a shift of the band gap location. In the Kekul\'e model, as strain is increased, band gap location is initially pinned to a corner of the Brillouin zone while its width diminishes, and after gap closure the location of the contact point begins to shift. Analytic and numerical results are obtained for both the tight-binding and Dirac fermion descriptions of gapped graphene., Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures, published version

In their first-principles calculations of the electronic band structure of graphene under uniaxial strain, Gui, Li, and Zhong [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{78}, 075435 (2008)] have found opening of band gaps at the Fermi level. This finding is in conflict with the tight-binding description of graphene which is closed gap for small strains. In this Comment, we present first-principles calculations which refute the claim that strain opens band gaps in graphene., Comment: published version