Approaching the Dirac Point in High-Mobility Multilayer Epitaxial Graphene

M. Orlita, C. Faugeras, Petr Neugebauer, G. Martinez, D. K. Maude, A.-L. Barra, M. Sprinkle, Claire Berger, Walt A. de Heer, M. Potemski

Physical Review Letters · 2008 · 637 citations · 31 references

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Multilayer epitaxial graphene is investigated using far infrared transmission experiments in the different limits of low magnetic fields and high temperatures. The cyclotron-resonance-like absorption is observed at low temperature in magnetic fields below 50 mT, probing the nearest vicinity of the Dirac point. The carrier mobility is found to exceed 250,000 cm2/(V x s). In the limit of high temperatures, the well-defined Landau level quantization is observed up to room temperature at magnetic fields below 1 T, a phenomenon unusual in solid state systems. A negligible increase in the width of the cyclotron resonance lines with increasing temperature indicates that no important scattering mechanism is thermally activated.

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