Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films

K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, et al. · Science / arXiv · 2004 · materials-science · 10.1126/science.1102896 · record novoselov2004-graphene
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Other fields define these differently the same word, defined another way in another discipline
atoms 2 fields · graphene 2 fields · two-dimensional 2 fields

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graphene two-dimensional material field effect charge carrier mobility few-layer graphene 2D semimetal band overlap carrier mobilities atomically-thin (few-layer) graphene is stable and metallic under ambient conditions, and its carrier density is tunable by an electric field (ambipolar field effect), enabling ballistic transport carbon two-dimensional electrons holes semimetal mobility atoms few-layer graphene (FLG) gate voltage experiment
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controlcontrolsan experiment run to eliminate a rival explanation
limitationlimitationswhat the paper says its evidence cannot support
mechanismmechanismshow the reported effect is said to come about
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limitationsan observed shift could be due to unintentional doping by absorbed gas molecules
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what this limits: the observed gate-voltage shift: Quotation withheld
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limitationsThe zero-gate-voltage hole doping may be an artefact of adsorbed gas molecules rather than intrinsic.
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what this limits: the same scope as limitations[0] - the zero-gate-voltage hole doping may be adsorbate, not intrinsic
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limitationsThe authors cannot explain why the measured behaviour fits a simple free-electron model when graphene is expected to have linear dispersion and massless carriers.
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what this limits: the free-electron description of the transport data: GRAPHENE IS EXPECTED TO HAVE THE LINEAR ENERGY DISPERSION AND CARRIERS WITH ZERO MASS, AND THE REASON WHY THE OBSERVED BEHAVIOR IS SO WELL DESCRIBED BY THE SIMPLEST FREE-ELE[ctron model is unclear] - the fit is unexplained, not the failure
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limitationsThe transistor's on-off resistance ratio is modest and this is a fundamental limit for a gapless material.
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what this limits: the device application claim: GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS SHOW A RATHER MODEST ON-OFF RESISTANCE RATIO ... BUT THIS IS A FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATION FOR ANY MAT[erial without a gap]
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limitationsThe devices differ in the one variable that defines the material - the number of layers - and that number is inferred from the measurement rather than known.
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what this limits: the band overlap reported here as a property of the material: it varied from 4 to 20 meV across samples, which the authors attribute to a different number of graphene layers involved, inferred rather than independently established
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limitationsThe headline mobility is the top of a sample-to-sample range, and mobility is stated to be limited by defect scattering rather than intrinsic.
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what this limits: the mobility figure quoted from this paper: measured values varied from sample to sample between 3,000 and 10,000, and were practically independent of temperature, which the authors read as still being limited by scattering on defects
limitations[5]1.0the tagger's words
limitationsWhat is measured is few-layer graphene of one, two or three atomic layers reported together, not single-layer graphene.
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what this limits: these results as measurements of single-layer graphene: the reported devices contained just 1, 2 or 3 atomic layers and all of them are reported as exhibiting essentially identical electronic properties
limitations[6]1.0the tagger's words
controlsthe observed reduction in the energy gap checked against the theoretical expectation that single-layer graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor
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eliminates: the measured gap being an artefact of the film thickness or the substrate rather than the band structure the paper is claiming · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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conceptsgraphene
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conceptsfield effect
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conceptsfew-layer graphene
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conceptsfield effect
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sensesgraphene - A NAME IN USE BEFORE ITS REFERENT EXISTED: a hypothetical single layer, employed to describe the properties of graphite, fullerenes and nanotubes, while planar graphene itself was presumed not to exist in the free state
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sensesgraphene - AS MEASURED IN THIS PAPER: few-layer graphene, devices of one, two or three atomic layers pooled together, which is not the sense the word now carries
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sensescarrier mobility - MEASURED TWO INDEPENDENT WAYS AND AGREEING: from the field effect and from magnetoresistance, which is the rarer and stronger case of two operationalisations converging
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claim_relationscontradicts → the prior consensus (refs 5-14) that planar graphene cannot exist in the free state
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concept_edgesfew-layer graphene —is-a→ 2D semimetal
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strength of the relation: 1 Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but the span writes 'FLG'; endpoint abbreviated.
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concept_edgescarrier mobilities —operationalised-as→ field effect
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content_tags≈10,000 — room-temperature charge-carrier mobility in graphene films
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content_tagsup to 10^13 — electron/hole concentrations inducible by gate voltage
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content_tagsThe films are a two-dimensional semimetal with a tiny band overlap and a strong ambipolar electric-field effect: electrons and holes can be induced by applying gate voltage.
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content_tagsGraphene forms an all-metallic field-effect transistor exhibiting ballistic transport at submicron distances even at room temperature.
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content_tagsgate voltage
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content_tagsgraphene
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content_tagsfew-layer graphene (FLG)
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