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@ARTICLE{Couto:189755,
author = {Couto, Nuno J. G. and Costanzo, Davide and Engels,
Stephan and Ki, Dong-Keun and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi,
Takashi and Stampfer, Christoph and Guinea, Francisco and
Morpurgo, Alberto F.},
title = {{R}andom {S}train {F}luctuations as {D}ominant {D}isorder
{S}ource for {H}igh-{Q}uality {O}n-{S}ubstrate {G}raphene
{D}evices},
journal = {Physical review / X},
volume = {4},
number = {4},
issn = {2160-3308},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-02785},
pages = {041019},
year = {2014},
abstract = {We perform systematic investigations of transport through
graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates,
together with confocal Raman measurements and a targeted
theoretical analysis, to identify the dominant source of
disorder in this system. Low-temperature transport
measurements on many devices reveal a clear correlation
between the carrier mobility μ and the width n of the
resistance peak around charge neutrality, demonstrating that
charge scattering and density inhomogeneities originate from
the same microscopic mechanism. The study of weak
localization unambiguously shows that this mechanism is
associated with a long-ranged disorder potential and
provides clear indications that random pseudomagnetic fields
due to strain are the dominant scattering source. Spatially
resolved Raman spectroscopy measurements confirm the role of
local strain fluctuations, since the linewidth of the Raman
2D peak—containing information of local strain
fluctuations present in graphene—correlates with the value
of maximum observed mobility. The importance of strain is
corroborated by a theoretical analysis of the relation
between μ and n that shows how local strain fluctuations
reproduce the experimental data at a quantitative level,
with n being determined by the scalar deformation potential
and μ by the random pseudomagnetic field (consistently with
the conclusion drawn from the analysis of weak
localization). Throughout our study, we compare the behavior
of devices on hBN substrates to that of devices on SiO2 and
SrTiO3, and find that all conclusions drawn for the case of
hBN are compatible with the observations made on these other
materials. These observations suggest that random strain
fluctuations are the dominant source of disorder for
high-quality graphene on many different substrates, and not
only on hexagonal boron nitride.},
cin = {PGI-9 / JARA-FIT},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-9-20110106 / $I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {421 - Frontiers of charge based Electronics (POF2-421)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-421},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000347012200001},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041019},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/189755},
}