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Limits on electron quality in suspended graphene due to flexural phonons

Materials Science 2011-02-08 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

The temperature dependence of the mobility in suspended graphene samples is investigated. In clean samples, flexural phonons become the leading scattering mechanism at temperature T10T \gtrsim 10\,\,K, and the resistivity increases quadratically with TT. Flexural phonons limit the intrinsic mobility down to a few m2/Vs\text{m}^2/\text{Vs} at room TT. Their effect can be eliminated by applying strain or placing graphene on a substrate.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2522,
  title  = {Limits on electron quality in suspended graphene due to flexural phonons},
  author = {E. V. Castro and H. Ochoa and M. I. Katsnelson and R. V. Gorbachev and D. C. Elias and K. S. Novoselov and A. K. Geim and F. Guinea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2522},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures