• 文献标题:   Mechanism for puddle formation in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ADAM S, JUNG SY, KLIMOV NN, ZHITENEV NB, STROSCIO JA, STILES MD
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   NIST
  • 被引频次:   24
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.235421
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

When graphene is close to charge neutrality, its energy landscape is highly inhomogeneous, forming a sea of electron-like and hole-like puddles that determine the properties of graphene at low carrier density. However, the details of the puddle formation have remained elusive. We demonstrate numerically that in sharp contrast to monolayer graphene, the normalized autocorrelation function for the puddle landscape in bilayer graphene depends only on the distance between the graphene and the source of the long-ranged impurity potential. By comparing with available experimental data, we find quantitative evidence for the implied differences in scanning tunneling microscopy measurements of electron and hole puddles for monolayer and bilayer graphene in nominally the same disorder potential.