• 文献标题:   Weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations in multi-layer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHUANG CS, WOO TP, MAHJOUB AM, OUCHI T, HSU CS, CHIN CP, AOKI N, LIN LH, OCHIAI Y, LIANG CT
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, conductance fluctuation, phase coherence
  • 出版物名称:   CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1567-1739 EI 1878-1675
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Taiwan Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.cap.2013.10.004
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We have performed magneto transport measurements on a multi-layer graphene device fabricated by conventional mechanical exfoliation. Suppression of weak localization (WL) as evidenced by the negative magnetoresistance (NMR) centered at zero field, and reproducible universal conductance fluctuations (UCFs) are observed. Interestingly, it is found that the phase coherence lengths calculated by fitting the observed NMR to conventional WL theory are longer than those determined from fitting the amplitudes of the UCFs to theory in the low temperature regime (T 8 K), the phase coherence lengths calculated by fitting the observed NMR to conventional WL theory are shorter than those determined from fitting the amplitudes of the UCFs to theory. Our new results therefore indicate a difference in the electron phase-breaking process between the two models of WL and UCFs in graphene. We speculate that the presence of the capping and bottom graphene layers, which leads the enhancement of disorder in-between, improves the localization condition for WL effect during carrier transportation in the low temperature regime. With increasing temperature, the localization condition for WL in multi-layer graphene becomes much weaker due to strong thermal damping. Therefore, the phase coherence lengths calculated by fitting the observed NMR to conventional WL theory are shorter than those determined from fitting the amplitudes of the UCFs to theory at high temperatures. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.