• 文献标题:   Impurity State and Variable Range Hopping Conduction in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIANG SZ, SOFO JO
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Penn State Univ
  • 被引频次:   17
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.256601
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

The variable range hopping theory, as formulated for exponentially localized impurity states, does not necessarily apply in the case of graphene with covalently attached impurities. We analyze the localization of impurity states in graphene using the nearest-neighbor, tight-binding model of an adatom-graphene system with Green's function perturbation methods. The amplitude of the impurity state wave function is determined to decay as a power law with exponents depending on sublattice, direction, and the impurity species. We revisit the variable range hopping theory in view of this result and find that the conductivity depends as a power law of the temperature with an exponent related to the localization of the wave function. We show that this temperature dependence is in agreement with available experimental results. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.256601