Magnetoresistance induced by inhomogeneity in graphene

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Abstract

We study the magnetoresistance of graphene samples with varying disorder as a function of carrier density. We observe a quadratic low-field classical magnetoresistance which is largest at low carrier density reflecting the inhomogeneous nature of transport in the electron-hole puddle dominated minimum conductivity region, as observed previously[\textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{77}, 084102(R) (2008)]. However we observe the magnetoresistance persists to carrier densities well outside the electron-hole puddle region, where single band transport is expected. We find that the magnetoresistance for all samples follows a universal form which depends only on the ratio of the carrier density $n$ to the characteristic electron-hole puddle density $n*$. The results are in excellent quantitative agreement with a recent theory based on an effective medium approximation for disordered graphene.

Authors

  • Jinglei Ping

    • Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland
  • Indra Yudhistira

    • Graphene Research Centre and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
  • Navneeth Ramakrishnan

    • Graphene Research Centre and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
  • Sungjae Cho

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Shaffique Adam

    • Graphene Research Centre and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
  • Michael Fuhrer

    • School of Physics, Monash University