Ballistic transport in graphene antidot lattices

The bulk carrier mobility in graphene was shown to be enhanced in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures. However, nanopatterning graphene can add extra damage and drastically degrade the intrinsic properties by edge disorder. Here we show that graphene embedded into a heterostructure with hexagona...

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Autores: Sandner, Andreas, Preis, Tobias, Schell, Christian, Giudici, Paula, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Weiss, Dieter, Eroms, Jonathan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/42311
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/42311
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graphen
Boron Nitride
Ballistic Transport
Antidots
Nanopatterning
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Sumario:The bulk carrier mobility in graphene was shown to be enhanced in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures. However, nanopatterning graphene can add extra damage and drastically degrade the intrinsic properties by edge disorder. Here we show that graphene embedded into a heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on both sides is protected during a nanopatterning step. In this way, we can prepare graphene-based antidot lattices where the high mobility is preserved. We report magnetotransport experiments in those antidot lattices with lattice periods down to 50 nm. We observe pronounced commensurability features stemming from ballistic orbits around one or several antidots. Due to the short lattice period in our samples, we can also explore the boundary between the classical and the quantum transport regime, as the Fermi wavelength of the electrons approaches the smallest length scale of the artificial potential.