Administration of EMP-related Publications
year | 2020 |
author(s) | Simon Zihlmann, Péter Makk, Mirko K. Rehmann, Lujun Wang, Máté Kedves, David Indolese, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Christian Schönenberger |
title | Out-of-plane corrugations in graphene based van der Waals heterostructures |
document type | Paper |
source | Phys. Rev. B 102, 195404 (2020) |
doi | 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.195404 |
arxiv | https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02690 |
EMP/Horizon2020 | This publication includes a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement. |
abstract | Two dimensional materials are usually envisioned as flat, truly 2D layers. However out-of-plane corrugations are inevitably present in these materials. In this manuscript, we show that graphene flakes encapsulated between insulating crystals (hBN, WSe2), although having large mobilities, surprisingly contain out-of-plane corrugations. The height fluctuations of these corrugations are revealed using weak localization measurements in the presence of a static in-plane magnetic field. Due to the random out-of-plane corrugations, the in-plane magnetic field results in a random out-of-plane component to the local graphene plane, which leads to a substantial decrease of the phase coherence time. Atomic force microscope measurements also confirm a long range height modulation present in these crystals. Our results suggest that phase coherent transport experiments relying on purely in-plane magnetic fields in van der Waals heterostructures have to be taken with serious care. |