Metallic-to-insulating transition in disordered graphene monolayers

Details Metallic-to-insulating transition in disordered graphene monolayers Metallic-to-insulating transition in disordered graphene monolayers

2009-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0912.0769v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

4 pages

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We show that when graphene monolayers are disordered, the conductance exhibits a metallic-to-insulating transition, which opens the door to new electronic devices. The transition can be observed by driving the density or Fermi energy through the mobility edge. At the Dirac point the system is localized, whereas at higher densities there is a region of metallic behavior before the system becomes insulating again at higher densities. The region of metallic behavior depends on the disorder strength and eventually vanishes at high disorder. This result is quite unexpected since in square lattices, scaling theory predicts that this metallic region does not exist in two dimensions, in contrast to graphene, where the lattice is a honeycomb.

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