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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 016602 (2008) [4 pages]

Giant Intrinsic Carrier Mobilities in Graphene and Its Bilayer

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S. V. Morozov1,2, K. S. Novoselov1, M. I. Katsnelson3, F. Schedin1, D. C. Elias1, J. A. Jaszczak4, and A. K. Geim1,*
1Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
2Institute for Microelectronics Technology, 142432 Chernogolovka, Russia
3Institute for Molecules and Materials, University of Nijmegen, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
4Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA

Received 3 November 2007; published 7 January 2008

We have studied temperature dependences of electron transport in graphene and its bilayer and found extremely low electron-phonon scattering rates that set the fundamental limit on possible charge carrier mobilities at room temperature. Our measurements show that mobilities higher than 200 000  cm2/V s are achievable, if extrinsic disorder is eliminated. A sharp (thresholdlike) increase in resistivity observed above ∼200   K is unexpected but can qualitatively be understood within a model of a rippled graphene sheet in which scattering occurs on intraripple flexural phonons.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.016602
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.016602
PACS:
72.10.−d, 72.15.Lh

*geim@man.ac.uk