Dephasing in strongly anisotropic black phosphorus

Autor: Hemsworth, N., Tayari, V., Telesio, F., Xiang, S., Roddaro, S., Caporali, M., Ienco, A., Serrano-Ruiz, M., Peruzzini, M., Gervais, G., Szkopek, T., Heun, S.
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. B 94, 245404 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.245404
Popis: Weak localization was observed and determined in a black phosphorus (bP) field-effect transistor 65 nm thick. The weak localization behaviour was found to be in excellent agreement with the Hikami-Larkin-Nagaoka model for fields up to 1~T, from which characteristic scattering lengths could be inferred. The dephasing length $L_\phi$ was found to increase linearly with increasing hole density attaining a maximum value of 55 nm at a hole density of approximately $10^{13} cm^{-2}$ inferred from the Hall effect. The temperature dependence of $L_\phi$ was also investigated and above 1~K, it was found to decrease weaker than the $L_\phi \propto T^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ dependence characteristic of electron-electron scattering in the presence of elastic scattering in two dimensions. Rather, the observed power law was found to be close to that observed previously in other quasi-one-dimensional systems such as metallic nanowires and carbon nanotubes. We attribute our result to the crystal structure of bP which host a `puckered' honeycomb lattice forming a strongly anisotropic medium
Databáze: arXiv