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Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096802 (2008) [4 pages]

Temperature-Dependent Transport in Suspended Graphene

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K. I. Bolotin1, K. J. Sikes2, J. Hone3, H. L. Stormer1,2,4, and P. Kim1
1Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
2Department of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
4Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA

Received 23 April 2008; published 25 August 2008

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The resistivity of ultraclean suspended graphene is strongly temperature (T) dependent for 5<T<240  K. At T∼5  K transport is near-ballistic in a device of ∼2  μm dimension and a mobility ∼170 000  cm2/V s. At large carrier density, n>0.5×1011  cm-2, the resistivity increases with increasing T and is linear above 50 K, suggesting carrier scattering from acoustic phonons. At T=240  K the mobility is ∼120 000  cm2/V s, higher than in any known semiconductor. At the charge neutral point we observe a nonuniversal conductivity that decreases with decreasing T, consistent with a density inhomogeneity <108  cm-2.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.096802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.096802
PACS:
73.50.−h, 72.10.−d