Acoustoelectric Current in Graphene Nanoribbons
dc.contributor.author | Poole, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Nash, GR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-02T12:36:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) propagating on piezoelectric substrates offer a convenient, contactless approach to probing the electronic properties of low-dimensional charge carrier systems such as graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). SAWs can also be used to transport and manipulate charge for applications such as metrology and quantum information. In this work, we investigate the acoustoelectric effect in GNRs, and show that an acoustoelectric current can be generated in GNRs with physical widths as small as 200 nm at room temperature. The positive current in the direction of the SAWs, which corresponds to the transportation of holes, exhibits a linear dependence on SAW intensity and frequency. This is consistent with the description of the interaction between the charge carriers in the GNRs and the piezoelectric fields associated with the SAWs being described by a relatively simple classical relaxation model. Somewhat counter-intuitively, as the GNR width is decreased, the measured acoustoelectric current increases. This is thought to be caused by an increase of the carrier mobility due to increased doping arising from damage to the GNR edges. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | G.R.N. acknowledges the support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through a Fellowship in Frontier Manufacturing (Grant no. EP/J018651/1). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 7, article 1767 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-017-01979-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28765 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28496129 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | Acoustoelectric Current in Graphene Nanoribbons | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-02T12:36:34Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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