• 文献标题:   Density inhomogeneity driven percolation metal-insulator transition and dimensional crossover in graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ADAM S, CHO S, FUHRER MS, DAS SARMA S
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Maryland
  • 被引频次:   92
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.046404
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

Transport in graphene nanoribbons with an energy gap in the spectrum is considered in the presence of random charged impurity centers. At low carrier density, we predict and establish that the system exhibits a density inhomogeneity driven two dimensional metal-insulator transition that is in the percolation universality class. For very narrow graphene nanoribbons (with widths smaller than the disorder induced length scale), we predict that there should be a dimensional crossover to the 1D percolation universality class with observable signatures in the transport gap. In addition, there should be a crossover to the Boltzmann transport regime at high carrier densities. The measured conductivity exponent and the critical density are consistent with this percolation transition scenario.