How close can one approach the dirac point in graphene experimentally?

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4629-4634

  Mayorov, Alexander S ^a   Elias, Daniel C ^a   Mukhin, Ivan S ^a   Morozov, Sergey V ^b   Ponomarenko, Leonid A ^a   Novoselov, Kostya S ^a   Geim, A K ^a   Gorbachev, Roman V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

clamped contacts; Graphene; high mobility; suspended graphene

Indexed keywords

DIRAC POINT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH MOBILITY; IN-FIELD; INHOMOGENEITIES; INSULATING STATE; LANDAU QUANTIZATION; LIQUID HELIUM TEMPERATURE; MICROMETER-SCALE; MODEL SYSTEM; NEUTRAL STATE; QUANTUM PHYSICS; THERMAL EXCITATION; UPPER LIMITS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAPHITE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84866327119     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301922d     Document Type: Article

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