• 文献标题:   Measurement of the Optical Conductivity of Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MAK KF, SFEIR MY, WU Y, LUI CH, MISEWICH JA, HEINZ TF
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   Columbia Univ
  • 被引频次:   961
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196405
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

Optical reflectivity and transmission measurements over photon energies between 0.2 and 1.2 eV were performed on single-crystal graphene samples on a SiO2 substrate. For photon energies above 0.5 eV, graphene yielded a spectrally flat optical absorbance of (2.3 +/- 0.2)%. This result is in agreement with a constant absorbance of pi alpha, or a sheet conductivity of pi e(2)/2h, predicted within a model of noninteracting massless Dirac fermions. This simple result breaks down at lower photon energies, where both spectral and sample-to-sample variations were observed. This "nonuniversal" behavior is explained by including the effects of doping and finite temperature, as well as contributions from intraband transitions.