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Dissipation-enabled hydrodynamic conductivity in a tunable bandgap semiconductor

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

C. Tan
D.Y.H. Ho
L. Wang
J.I.A. Li
I. Yudhistira
D.A. Rhodes
T. Taniguchi
K. Watanabe
K. Shepard
P.L. McEuen
C.R. Dean
S. Adam
J. Hone

Abstract

Electronic transport in the regime where carrier-carrier collisions are the dominant scattering mechanism has taken on new relevance with the advent of ultraclean two-dimensional materials. Here, we present a combined theoretical and experimental study of ambipolar hydrodynamic transport in bilayer graphene demonstrating that the conductivity is given by the sum of two Drude-like terms that describe relative motion between electrons and holes, and the collective motion of the electron-hole plasma. As predicted, the measured conductivity of gapless, charge-neutral bilayer graphene is sample- and temperature-independent over a wide range. Away from neutrality, the electron-hole conductivity collapses to a single curve, and a set of just four fitting parameters provides quantitative agreement between theory and experiment at all densities, temperatures, and gaps measured. This work validates recent theories for dissipation-enabled hydrodynamic conductivity and creates a link between semiconductor physics and the emerging field of viscous electronics. Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).

Date Published

Journal

Science Advances

Volume

8

Issue

15

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85128470359&doi=10.1126%2fsciadv.abi8481&partnerID=40&md5=cdb94849661400f995e37ce016b97d42

DOI

10.1126/sciadv.abi8481

Group (Lab)

Paul McEuen Group

Funding Source

EFRI-1741660
DMR-2011738
R13ES027302
DMR-1719875
FA9550-11-C-0028
NRF-NRFI06-2020-0003
MOE2017-T2-1-130
JPMJCR15F3

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