• 文献标题:   Anomalous Enhancement of the Boltzmann Conductivity in Disordered Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAKANE Y
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbon, perfectly conducting channel, incoherent transport, boltzmann equation
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • ISSN:   0031-9015
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hiroshima Univ
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1143/JPSJ.79.024711
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

We study the conductivity of disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbons in the incoherent regime by using the Boltzmann equation approach. The band structure of zigzag nanoribbons contains two energy valleys, and each valley has an excess one-way channel. The crucial point is that the numbers of conducting channels for two propagating directions are imbalanced in each valley due to the presence of an excess one-way channel. It was pointed out that as a consequence of this imbalance, a perfectly conducting channel is stabilized in the coherent regime if intervalley scattering is absent. We show that even in the incoherent regime, the conductivity is anomalously enhanced if intervalley scattering is very weak. Particularly, in the limit of no intervalley scattering, the dimensionless conductance approaches to unity with increasing ribbon length as if there exists a perfectly conducting channel. We also show that anomalous valley polarization of electron density appears in the presence of an electric field.