English
Related papers

Related papers: Correlated charged impurity scattering in graphene

200 papers

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen

Intervalley charged-impurity scattering processes are examined. It is found that the scattering probability is enhanced due to the Coulomb interaction with the impurity by the Sommerfield factor $F_Z\propto \epsilon^{2\sqrt{1-4g^2}-2}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 L. S. Braginsky , M. V. Entin

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 T. O. Wehling , S. Yuan , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. K. Geim , M. I. Katsnelson

Localized magnetic moments have been predicted to develop in graphene samples with vacancies or adsorbates. The interplay between such magnetic impurities and graphene's Dirac quasiparticles leads to remarkable many-body phenomena, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

We discuss various scattering mechanisms for Dirac fermions in single-layer graphene. It is shown that scattering on a short-range potential (due to, for example, neutral impurities) is mostly irrelevant for electronic quality of graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

We probe the local inhomogeneities of the electronic properties of graphene at the nanoscale using scanning probe microscopy techniques. First, we focus on the study of the electronic inhomogeneities caused by the graphene-substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 A. Castellanos-Gomez , Arramel , M. Wojtaszek , R. H. M. Smit , N. Tombros , N. Agraït , B. J. van Wees , G. Rubio-Bollinger

We probe the local inhomogeneities in the electronic properties of exfoliated graphene due to the presence of charged impurities in the SiO2 substrate using a combined scanning tunneling and electrostatic force microscope. Contact potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Roel H. M. Smit , Nicolás Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

We investigate bilayer graphene transport in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by long-range charged impurities in the environment. We explain the insulating behavior observed in the temperature dependent conductivity of low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Graphene on a dielectric substrate exhibits spatial doping inhomogeneities, forming electron-hole puddles. Understanding and controlling the latter is of crucial importance for unraveling many of graphene's fundamental properties at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. C. Martin , S. Samaddar , B. Sacépé , A. Kimouche , J. Coraux , F. Fuchs , B. Grévin , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Introducing quasiparticle anisotropy in graphene via uniaxial strain has a profound effect on the polarization charge density induced by external impurities, both Coulomb and short-range. In particular, the charge distribution induced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Sang Wook Kim , Juan M. Vanegas , Valeri N. Kotov

We investigate the effect due to background impurities embedded in the region of two-dimensional electron gases to the magnetotransport. These impurities are achieved by homogeneously incorporating Si atoms in single quantum wells of high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 E. P. Rugeramigabo , L. Bockhorn , R. J. Haug

We study carrier transport through graphene on SrTiO$_3$ substrates by considering relative contributions of Coulomb and resonant impurity scattering to graphene resistivity. We establish that charged impurity scattering must dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

We present a study of transport in graphene devices on polar insulating substrates by solving the Bolzmann transport equation in the presence of graphene phonon, surface polar phonon, and Coulomb charged impurity scattering. The value of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

We predict a transition to metallicity when a sufficient amount of disorder is induced in graphene. Calculations were performed by means of a first principles stochastic quench method. The resulting amorphous graphene can be seen as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Holmstrom , J. Fransson , O. Eriksson , R. Lizarraga , B. Sanyal , M. I. Katsnelson

We present a systematic study of the electronic, transport and optical properties of disordered graphene including the next-nearest-neighbor hopping. We show that this hopping has a non-negligible effect on resonant scattering but is of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Pei-liang Zhao , Shengjun Yuan , M. I. Katsnelson , H. De Raedt

Charge carrier scattering is critical to the electrical properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, black phosphorene, and tellurene. Beyond pristine two-dimensional materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Dongchao Xu , Shuang Tang , Xu Du , Qing Hao

Graphene [1] and its bilayer have generated tremendous excitement in the physics community due to their unique electronic properties [2]. The intrinsic physics of these materials, however, is partially masked by disorder, which can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

Motivated by experiments on ion irradiated graphene, we compute the resistivity of graphene with dilute impurities. In the local moment regime we employ the perturbation theory up to third order in the exchange coupling to determine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-12 Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji