• 文献标题:   Theory of thermopower in two-dimensional graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HWANG EH, ROSSI E, DAS SARMA S
  • 作者关键词:   carrier density, electronhole recombination, graphene, impurity state, thermoelectric power
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   115
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.80.235415
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

Motivated by recent experiments by Yuri M. Zuev [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096807 (2009)], Peng Wei [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 166808 (2009)], and Joseph G. Checkelsky [Phys. Rev. B 80, 081413(R) (2009)], we calculate the thermopower of graphene incorporating the energy dependence of various transport scattering times. We find that scattering by screened charged impurities gives a reasonable explanation for the measured thermopower. The calculated thermopower behaves as 1/n at high densities, but saturates at low densities. We also find that the thermopower scales with the normalized temperature T/T-F and does not depend on the impurity densities, but strongly depends on the fine-structure constant r(s) and on the location of the impurities. We discuss the deviation from the Mott formula in graphene thermopower and use an effective-medium theory to calculate thermopower at low carrier density regimes where electron-hole puddles dominate.