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Charge carrier transport asymmetry in monolayer graphene

Materials Science 2018-01-12 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The conductivity and Hall effect were measured in CVD-grown monolayer graphene as a function of the gate voltage, VgV_{g}, at temperatures down to TT = 2 K and in magnetic fields up to BB = 8 T. The minimal conductivity was observed at positive VgV_{g} which shows the position of the charge neutrality point, VNPV_{NP}. With decreasing TT, VNPV_{NP} first decreases, but stop to decrease at low TT. Hysteresis of conductivity shows similar behavior: it decreases with decreasing TT and disappears at low TT. A significant asymmetry was observed at low density of charge carriers n=(n,p)|n|=(n,p): mobility of holes was less than mobility of electrons. The asymmetry decreases with increasing n|n|. It was observed that the value of n|n| determined from the Hall effect is less than the full value induced by VgV_{g}. In strong perpendicular BB, Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations were observed in the longitudinal conductivity, σxx\sigma_{xx}, together with half-integer quantum Hall plateaus. It was found that n|n| determined from SdH oscillations is equal to the full value induced by VgV_{g} as opposed to the Hall effect. Explanatory models for all observed phenomena are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1801.03565,
  title  = {Charge carrier transport asymmetry in monolayer graphene},
  author = {Erez Zion and Alexander Butenko and Amos Sharnoi and Moshe Kaveh and Issai Shlimak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03565},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures