• 文献标题:   Observation of Coulomb blockade in nanostructured epitaxial bilayer graphene on SiC
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHUA C, LARTSEV A, SUI J, PANCHAL V, PUDDY R, RICHARDSON C, SMITH CG, JANSSEN TJBM, TZALENCHUK A, YAKIMOVA R, KUBATKIN S, CONNOLLY MR
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  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Cambridge
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2017.04.019
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We study electron transport in nanostructures patterned in bilayer graphene patches grown epitaxially on SiC as a function of doping, magnetic field, and temperature. Away from charge neutrality transport is only weakly modulated by changes in carrier concentration induced by a local side-gate. At low n-type doping close to charge neutrality, electron transport resembles that in exfoliated graphene nanoribbons and is well described by tunnelling of single electrons through a network of Coulomb-blockaded islands. Under the influence of an external magnetic field, Coulomb blockade resonances fluctuate around an average energy and the gap shrinks as a function of magnetic field. At charge neutrality, however, conduction is less insensitive to external magnetic fields. In this regime we also observe a stronger suppression of the conductance below T*, which we interpret as a sign of broken interlayer symmetry or strong fluctuations in the edge/potential disorder. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.