Approaching the Dirac point in high mobility multi-layer epitaxial graphene

Milan Orlita (1) , Clement Faugeras (1) , Paulina Plochocka (1) , Petr Neugebauer (1) , Gerard Martinez (1) , Duncan Kennedy Maude (1) , Anne-Laure Barra (1) , Mike Sprinkle (2) , Claire Berger (3) , Walter A. de Heer (2) , Marek Potemski (1)

1 LNCMI-G - Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Grenoble
2 Georgia Institute of Technology [Atlanta]
3 NEEL - QuantECA - Circuits électroniques quantiques Alpes

Multi-layer epitaxial graphene (MEG) is investigated using far infrared (FIR) transmission experiments in the different limits of low magnetic fields and high temperatures. The cyclotron-resonance like absorption is observed at low temperature in magnetic fields below 50 mT, allowing thus to probe the nearest vicinity of the Dirac point and to estimate the conductivity in nearly undoped graphene. The carrier mobility is found to exceed 250,000 cm$^2$/(V.s). In the limit of high temperatures, the well-defined Landau level (LL) quantization is observed up to room temperature at magnetic fields below 1 T, a phenomenon unique in solid state systems. A negligible increase in the width of the cyclotron resonance lines with increasing temperature indicates that no important scattering mechanism is thermally activated, supporting recent expectations of high room-temperature mobilities in graphene.

Domaines: Autre [cond-mat.other]; Systèmes mésoscopiques et effet Hall quantique [cond-mat.mes-hall]

Milan Orlita, Clement Faugeras, Paulina Plochocka, Petr Neugebauer, Gerard Martinez, et al.. Approaching the Dirac point in high mobility multi-layer epitaxial graphene. Physical Review Letters, 2008, 101 (26), pp.267601. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.267601⟩. ⟨hal-00413943⟩