• 文献标题:   High-Velocity Saturation in Graphene Encapsulated by Hexagonal Boron Nitride
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YAMOAH MK, YANG WM, POP E, GOLDHABERGORDON D
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, boron nitride, drift velocity saturation, high field, phonon scattering
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Stanford Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.7b03878
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We measure drift velocity in monolayer 8 graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), probing its dependence on carrier density and temperature. Due to the high mobility (>5 x 10(4) cm(2)/V/s) of our samples, the drift velocity begins to saturate at low electric fields (similar to 0.1 V/mu m) at room temperature. Comparing results to a canonical drift velocity model, we extract room-temperature electron saturation velocities ranging from 6 X 10(7) cm/s at a low carrier density of 8 X 10(11) cm(-2) to 2.7 X 10(7) cm/s at a higher density of 4.4 X 10(12) cm(-2). Such drift velocities are much higher than those in silicon (similar to 10(7) cm/s) and in graphene on SiO2, likely due to reduced carrier scattering with surface optical phonons whose energy in hBN (>100 meV) is higher than that in other substrates.