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Electronic properties of graphene
Author(s) -
Novoselov K. S.,
Morozov S. V.,
Mohinddin T. M. G.,
Ponomarenko L. A.,
Elias D. C.,
Yang R.,
Barbolina I. I.,
Blake P.,
Booth T. J.,
Jiang D.,
Giesbers J.,
Hill E. W.,
Geim A. K.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200776208
Subject(s) - graphene , gapless playback , semiconductor , condensed matter physics , charge carrier , physics , charge (physics) , massless particle , graphene nanoribbons , dispersion relation , electronic structure , materials science , quantum mechanics
Graphene is the first example of truly two‐dimensional crystals – it's just one layer of carbon atoms. It turns out that graphene is a gapless semiconductor with unique electronic properties resulting from the fact that charge carriers in graphene obey linear dispersion relation, thus mimicking massless relativistic particles. This results in the observation of a number of very peculiar electronic properties – from an anomalous quantum Hall effect to the absence of localization. It also provides a bridge between condensed matter physics and quantum electrodynamics and opens new perspectives for carbon‐based electronics. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)