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Shot Noise Suppression and Hopping Conduction in Graphene Nanoribbons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

We have investigated shot noise and conduction of graphene field effect nanoribbon devices at low temperature. By analyzing the exponential IVI-V characteristics of our devices in the transport gap region, we found out that transport follows variable range hopping laws at intermediate bias voltages 1<Vbias<121 < V_{bias} < 12 mV. In parallel, we observe a strong shot noise suppression leading to very low Fano factors. The strong suppression of shot noise is consistent with inelastic hopping, in crossover from one- to two-dimensional regime, indicating that the localization length lloc<Wl_{loc} < W in our nanoribbons.

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@article{arxiv.1005.4403,
  title  = {Shot Noise Suppression and Hopping Conduction in Graphene Nanoribbons},
  author = {R. Danneau and F. Wu and M. Y. Tomi and J. B. Oostinga and A. F. Morpurgo and P. J. Hakonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.4403},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures