Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-10-15
Phys. Rev. B, Vol 79, pp 085410 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
The objective of this paper is to point out that contact induced states can help explain the structure dependence of the minimum conductivity observed experimentally even if the samples were purely ballistic. Contact induced states are similar to the well-known metal induced gap states (MIGS) in metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions, which typically penetrate only a few atomic lengths into the semiconductor, while the depth of penetration decreases with increasing band gap. However, in graphene we find that these states penetrate a much longer distance of the order of the width of the contacts. As a result, ballistic graphene samples with a length less than their width can exhibit a resistance proportional to length that is not Ohmic in origin, but arises from a reduced role of contact-induced states. While actual samples are probably not ballistic and involve scattering processes, our results show that these contact induced effects need to be taken into account in interpreting experiments and minimum conductivity depends strongly on the structure and configuration (two- vs. four-terminal) used.
Datta Supriyo
Golizadeh-Mojarad Roksana
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