Damping of Landau levels in neutral graphene at low magnetic fields: A phonon Raman scattering study

作者:Ardito F M*; Mendes de Sa T G; Cadore A R; Gomes P F; Mafra D L; Barcelos I D; Lacerda R G; Iikawa F; Granado E
来源:Physical Review B, 2018, 97(3): 035419.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035419

摘要

Landau level broadening mechanisms in electrically neutral and quasineutral graphene were investigated through micro-magneto-Raman experiments in three different samples, namely, a natural single-layer graphene flake and a back-gated single-layer device, both deposited over Si/SiO2 substrates, and a multilayer epitaxial graphene employed as a reference sample. Interband Landau level transition widths were estimated through a quantitative analysis of the magnetophonon resonances associated with optically active Landau level transitions crossing the energy of the E-2g Raman-active phonon. Contrary to multilayer graphene, the single-layer graphene samples show a strong damping of the low-field resonances, consistent with an additional broadening contribution of the Landau level energies arising from a random strain field. This extra contribution is properly quantified in terms of a pseudomagnetic field distribution Delta B = 1.0 - 1.7 T in our single-layer samples.

  • 出版日期2018-1-12