Effect of a high-κ environment on charge carrier mobility in graphene

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Ponomarenko, L A ^a   Yang, R ^a   Mohiuddin, T M ^a   Katsnelson, M I ^b   Novoselov, K S ^a   Morozov, S V ^a,c   Zhukov, A A ^a   Schedin, F ^a   Hill, E W ^a   Geim, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND HIGH PURITY MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED IMPURITY; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; GRAPHENE; MEAN FREE PATH; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; VARIOUS SUBSTRATES;

ETHANOL; GLYCEROL; SCATTERING; SUBSTRATES;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 66049085166     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.206603     Document Type: Article

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