• 文献标题:   Carbon-Rich Domain in Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Carrier Mobility Degradation and Anomalous Bending of the Landau Fan Diagram in Adjacent Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ONODERA M, WATANABE K, ISAYAMA M, ARAI M, MASUBUCHI S, MORIYA R, TANIGUCHI T, MACHIDA T
  • 作者关键词:   hexagonal boron nitride, carbonrich domain, graphene, carrier mobility, landau fan diagram, farultraviolet photoluminescence
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tokyo
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02879
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) crystals grown under ultrahigh pressures and ultrahigh temperatures exhibit a high crystallinity and are used throughout the world as ideal substrates and insulating layers in van der Waals heterostructures. However, in their central region, these crystals have domains which contain a significant density of carbon impurities. In this study, we utilized cathodoluminescence and far-ultraviolet photoluminescence to reveal that the carbon (C)-rich domain can exist even after exfoliation. Then, we studied the carrier transport of graphene in h-BN/graphene/h-BN van der Waals heterostructures, precisely arranging the graphene to straddle the border of the C-rich domain in h-BN. We found that the carrier mobility of graphene on the C-rich h-BN domain was significantly suppressed. In addition, characteristic bending of the Landau fan diagram was observed on the electron-doped side. These results suggest that the C-rich domain in h-BN forms an impurity level and induces extrinsic carrier scattering into adjacent graphene.