• 文献标题:   Electron Hole Symmetry Breaking in Charge Transport in Nitrogen-Doped Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI JY, LIN L, RUI DR, LI QC, ZHANG JC, KANG N, ZHANG YF, PENG HL, LIU ZF, XU HQ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, charge transport, intervalley scattering graphitic nitrogen doping, atomically sharp scattering center
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Peking Univ
  • 被引频次:   29
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.7b00313
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene is an excellent platform to study scattering processes of massless Dirac Fermions by charged impurities, in which high mobility can be preserved due to the absence of lattice defects through direct substitution of carbon atoms in the graphene lattice by nitrogen atoms. In this work, we report on electrical and magnetotransport measurements of high quality graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene. We show that the substitutional nitrogen dopants in graphene introduce atomically sharp scatters for electrons but long-range Coulomb scatters for holes and, thus, graphitic nitrogen doped graphene exhibits clear electron hole asymmetry in transport properties. Dominant scattering processes of charge carriers in graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene are analyzed. It is shown that the electron hole asymmetry originates from a distinct difference in intervalley scattering of electrons and holes. We have also carried out the magnetotransport measurements of graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene at different temperatures and the temperature dependences of intervalley scattering, intravalley scattering, and phase coherent scattering rates are extracted and discussed. Our results provide an evidence for the electron-hole asymmetry in the intervalley scattering induced by substitutional nitrogen dopants in graphene and shine a light on versatile and potential applications of graphitic nitrogen-doped graphene in electronic and valleytronic devices.