Conductivity of graphene with resonant and nonresonant adsorbates

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Oct 4;111(14):146601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.146601. Epub 2013 Oct 1.

Abstract

We propose a unified description of transport in graphene with adsorbates that fully takes into account localization effects and loss of electronic coherence due to inelastic processes. We focus in particular on the role of the scattering properties of the adsorbates and analyze in detail cases with resonant or nonresonant scattering. For both models, we identify several regimes of conduction, depending on the value of the Fermi energy. Sufficiently far from the Dirac energy and at sufficiently small concentrations, the semiclassical theory can be a good approximation. Near the Dirac energy, we identify different quantum regimes, where the conductivity presents universal behaviors.