• 文献标题:   Observation of quantum Hall plateau-plateau transition and scaling behavior of the zeroth Landau level in graphene p-n-p junctions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU CH, WANG PH, WOO TP, SHIH FY, LIOU SC, HO PH, CHEN CW, LIANG CT, WANG WH
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Acad Sinica
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.93.041421
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

We report distinctivemagnetotransport properties of a graphenep-n-p junction prepared by controlled diffusion of metallic contacts. In most cases, materials deposited on a graphene surface introduce substantial carrier scattering, which greatly reduces the high mobility of intrinsic graphene. However, we show that an oxide layer only weakly perturbs the carrier transport, which enables fabrication of a high-quality graphene p-n-p junction through a one-step and resist-free method. The measured conductance-gate voltage (G-VG) curves can be well described by a metal contact model, which confirms the charge-density depinning due to the oxide layer. The graphene p-n-p junction samples exhibit a pronounced quantum Hall (QH) effect, a well-defined transition point of the zeroth Landau level (LL), and scaling behavior. The scaling exponent obtained from the evolution of the zeroth LL width as a function of temperature exhibits a relatively low value of k = 0.21 +/- 0.01. Moreover, we calculate the energy level for the LLs based on the distribution of plateau-plateau transition points, further validating the assignment of the LL index of the QH plateau-plateau transition.