Carrier transport in 2D graphene layers

Details Carrier transport in 2D graphene layers Carrier transport in 2D graphene layers

2006-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610157v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186806 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures, published in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.186806

Carrier transport in gated 2D graphene monolayers is theoretically considered in the presence of scattering by random charged impurity centers with density $n_i$. Excellent quantitative agreement is obtained (for carrier density $n > 10^{12} \rm{cm}^{-2}$) with existing experimental data (Ref. \onlinecite{kn:novoselov2004, kn:novoselov2005, kn:zhang2005, kn:kim2006, kn:fuhrer2006}). The conductivity scales linearly with $n/n_i$ in the theory, and shows extremely weak temperature dependence. The experimentally observed asymmetry between electron and hole conductivities is explained by the asymmetry in the charged impurity configuration in the presence of the gate voltage, while the high-density saturation of conductivity for the highest mobility samples is explained as a crossover between the long-range and the point scattering dominated regimes. We argue that the experimentally observed saturation of conductivity at low density arises from the charged impurity induced inhomogeneity in the graphene carrier density which becomes severe for $n \lesssim n_i \sim 10^{12} \rm{cm}^{-2}$.

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