• 文献标题:   Anomalous insulator-metal transition in boron nitride-graphene hybrid atomic layers
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG L, BALICAS L, MOWBRAY DJ, CAPAZ RB, STORR K, CI L, JARIWALA D, KURTH S, LOUIE SG, RUBIO A, AJAYAN PM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rice Univ
  • 被引频次:   40
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075429
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

The study of two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems is of great fundamental significance in physics. Atomic layers containing hybridized domains of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BNC) constitute a new kind of disordered 2D electronic system. Magnetoelectric transport measurements performed at low temperature in vapor phase synthesized h-BNC atomic layers show a clear and anomalous transition from an insulating to a metallic behavior upon cooling. The observed insulator to metal transition can be modulated by electron and hole doping and by the application of an external magnetic field. These results supported by ab initio calculations suggest that this transition in h-BNC has distinctly different characteristics when compared to other 2D electron systems and is the result of the coexistence between two distinct mechanisms, namely, percolation through metallic graphene networks and hopping conduction between edge states on randomly distributed insulating h-BN domains.