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Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…

Charged impurity (CI) scattering is one of the dominant factors that affect the carrier mobility in graphene. In this paper, we use Raman spectroscopy to probe the charged impurities in suspended graphene. We find that the 2D band intensity…

We develop a first-principles theory of resonant impurities in graphene and show that a broad range of typical realistic impurities leads to the characteristic sublinear dependence of the conductivity on the carrier concentration. By means…

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Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

The Coulomb impurity problem of graphene, in the absence of a magnetic field, displays discrete scale invariance. Applying a magnetic field introduces a new magnetic length scale $\ell$ and breaks discrete scale invariance. Moreover, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Hoang-Anh Le , S. -R. Eric Yang

Defects in graphene are of crucial importance for its electronic and magnetic properties. Here impurity effects on the electronic structure of surrounding carbon atoms are considered and the distribution of the local densities of states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 T. O. Wehling , A. V. Balatsky , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein , K. Scharnberg , R. Wiesendanger

We characterize the carrier density profile of the ground state of graphene in the presence of particle-particle interaction and random charged impurity for zero gate voltage. We provide detailed analysis on the resulting spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. N. Najafi , M. Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

We study charged impurity scattering and static screening in a top-gated substrate-supported graphene nanostructure. Our model describes how boundary conditions can be incorporated into scattering, sheds light on the dielectric response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti

Motivated by recent graphene transport experiments, we have undertaken a numerical study of the conductivity of disordered two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Our results reveal distinct differences between the cases of short-range and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-30 Kentaro Nomura , A. H. MacDonald

We study the effect of long-range disorder created by charge impurities on the carrier density distribution of graphene-based heterostructures. We consider heterostructures formed by two graphenic sheets (either single layer graphene, SLG,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Jonathan Fischer , S. Das Sarma , E. Rossi

We analyze the scattering from one-dimensional defects in intrinsic graphene. The Coulomb repulsion between electrons is found to be able to induce singularities of such scattering at zero temperature as in one-dimensional conductors. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Kindermann

Detailed experimental and theoretical studies of the temperature dependence of the effect of different scattering mechanisms on electrical transport properties of graphene devices are presented. We find that for high mobility devices the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Suman Sarkar , Kazi Rafsanjani Amin , Ranjan Modak , Amandeep Singh , Subroto Mukerjee , Aveek Bid

Understanding disorder in graphene is essential for electronic applications; in contrast to conventional materials, the extraordinarily low electron-phonon scattering1, 2 in graphene implies that disorder3-7 dominates its resistivity even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

We study the effect of impurities in superconducting graphene and discuss their influence on the local electronic properties. In particular, we consider the case of magnetic and non-magnetic impurities being either strongly localized or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 T. O. Wehling , H. P. Dahal , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. V. Balatsky

We review the theoretical and experimental results connected with the electron states in two-dimensional Dirac systems paying a special attention to the atomic collapse in graphene. Two-electron bound states of a Coulomb impurity are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-15 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

We consider a graphene sheet in the vicinity of a substrate, which contains charged impurities. An analytic expression for the probability distribution function of voltage fluctuations due to the charged impurities is derived. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

We review the problem of adatoms in graphene under two complementary points of view, scattering theory and strong correlations. We show that in both cases impurity atoms on the graphene surface present effects that are absent in the physics…

We consider theoretically effects of random charged impurity disorder on the {\it quality} of high-mobility two dimensional (2D) semiconductor structures, explicitly demonstrating that the sample mobility is not necessarily a reliable or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We study the intervalley scattering in defected graphene by low-temperature transport measurements. The scattering rate is strongly suppressed when defects are charged. This finding highlights "screening" of the short-range part of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Baoming Yan , Qi Han , Zhenzhao Jia , Jingjing Niu , Tuocheng Cai , Dapeng Yu , Xiaosong Wu