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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Local spots of viscous electron flow in graphene at room temperature and moderate mobility

Abstract: Dominating electron-electron scattering enables viscous electron flow exhibiting hydrodynamic current density patterns such as Poiseuille profiles or vortices. The viscous regime has recently been observed in graphene by non-local transport experiments and mapping of the Poiseuille profile. Here, we probe the current-induced surface potential maps of graphene field effect transistors with moderate mobility using scanning probe microscopy at room temperature. We discover the appearance of $\mu$m large areas close to charge neutrality, where the current induced electric field opposes the externally applied field. By estimating the local scattering lengths from the gate dependence of local in-plane electric fields, we find that electron-electron scattering dominates in these areas as expected for viscous flow. Moreover, we suppress the inverted fields by artificially decreasing the electron-disorder scattering length via mild ion bombardment. These results imply that viscous electron flow is omnipresent in graphene devices, even at moderate mobility.
Comments: 89 pages, 24 figures, submitted to Nano Letters
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
Cite as: arXiv:2103.11466 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2103.11466v2 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Sayanti Samaddar Dr. [view email]
[v1] Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:16:03 GMT (25427kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:12:04 GMT (22533kb,D)
[v3] Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:25:07 GMT (22532kb,D)
[v4] Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:35:11 GMT (22532kb,D)

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