• 文献标题:   Hofstadter Butterfly and Many-Body Effects in Epitaxial Graphene Superlattice
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG W, LU XB, CHEN GR, WU S, XIE GB, CHENG M, WANG DM, YANG R, SHI DX, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, VOISIN C, PLACAIS B, ZHANG YB, ZHANG GY
  • 作者关键词:   graphene superlattice, hofstadter butterfly, metalinsulator transition, fermi velocity, manybody effect
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05161
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Graphene placed on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has received a wide range of interest due to the improved electrical performance and rich physics from the interface, especially the emergence of superlattice Dirac points as well as Hofstadter butterfly in high magnetic field. Instead of transferring graphene onto h-BN, epitaxial growth of graphene directly on a single-crystal h-BN provides an alternative and promising way to study these interesting superlattice effects due to their precise lattice alignment. Here we report an electrical transport study on epitaxial graphene superlattice on h-BN with a period of similar to 15.6 nm. The epitaxial graphene superlattice is clean, intrinsic, and of high quality with a carrier mobility of similar to 27 000 cm(2)V(-1) s(-1), which enables the observation of Hofstadter butterfly features originated from the superlattice at a magnetic field as low as 6.4 T. A metal-insulator transition and magnetic field dependent Fermi velocity were also observed, suggesting prominent electron-electron interaction-induced many-body effects.