Anomalous dissipation mechanism and Hall quantization limit in polycrystalline graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition

F. Lafont, R. Ribeiro-Palau, Z. Han, A. Cresti, A. Delvallée, A. W. Cummings, S. Roche, V. Bouchiat, S. Ducourtieux, F. Schopfer, and W. Poirier
Phys. Rev. B 90, 115422 – Published 18 September 2014

Abstract

We report on the observation of strong backscattering of charge carriers in the quantum Hall regime of polycrystalline graphene, grown by chemical vapor deposition, which alters the accuracy of the Hall resistance quantization. The temperature and magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal conductance exhibits unexpectedly smooth power-law behaviors, which are incompatible with a description in terms of variable range hopping or thermal activation but rather suggest the existence of extended or poorly localized states at energies between Landau levels. Such states could be caused by the high density of line defects (grain boundaries and wrinkles) that cross the Hall bars, as revealed by structural characterizations. Numerical calculations confirm that quasi-one-dimensional extended nonchiral states can form along such line defects and short circuit the Hall bar chiral edge states.

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  • Received 9 April 2014
  • Revised 25 August 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.115422

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

F. Lafont1, R. Ribeiro-Palau1, Z. Han2, A. Cresti3, A. Delvallée1, A. W. Cummings4, S. Roche4,5, V. Bouchiat2, S. Ducourtieux1, F. Schopfer1, and W. Poirier1

  • 1Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais, 78197 Trappes, France
  • 2Institut Néel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Université Joseph Fourier–Grenoble Institute of Technology, 38042 Grenoble, France
  • 3Institute of Microelectronics, Electromagnetism, and Photonics–Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation (UMR5130), Grenoble Institute of Technology MINATEC, 38016 Grenoble, France
  • 4Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
  • 5Instituciò Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain

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Vol. 90, Iss. 11 — 15 September 2014

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