Large-scale Mesoscopic Transport in Nanostructured Graphene
Abstract
Through exponential sample-size scaling of conductance, we demonstrate strong electron localization in three sets of nanostructured antidot graphene samples with localization lengths of 1.1, 2, and 3.4μm. The large-scale mesoscopic transport is manifest as a parallel conduction channel to 2D variable range hopping, with a Coulomb quasigap around the Fermi level. The opening of the correlation quasigap, observable below 25 K through the temperature dependence of conductance, makes possible the exponential suppression of inelastic electron-electron scatterings and thereby leads to an observed dephasing length of 10μm.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.066805
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvL.110f6805Z
- Keywords:
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- 73.23.-b;
- 72.80.Vp;
- 72.15.Rn;
- Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems;
- Localization effects