Electron localization in metal-decorated graphene

Tunable superconducting phase transition in metal-decorated graphene sheets.

We have produced graphene sheets decorated with a nonpercolating network of nanoscale tin clusters. These metal clusters both efficiently dope the graphene substrate and induce long-range superconducting correlations. We find that despite structural inhomogeneity on mesoscopic length scales (10-100 nm), this material behaves electronically as a homogenous dirty superconductor with a field-effec...

1 Tunable Superconducting Phase Transition in Metal-Decorated Graphene Sheets

B.M. Kessler, Ç. Ö. Girit, A. Zettl, and V. Bouchiat Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, Berkeley, California, 94720 USA Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal...

Inorganic Nanostructures Decorated Graphene

Transport in indium-decorated graphene

The electronic transport properties of single layer graphene having a dilute coating of indium adatoms has been investigated. Our studies establish that isolated indium atoms donate electrons to graphene and become a source of charged impurity scattering, affecting the conductivity as well as magnetotransport properties of the pristine graphene. Notably, a positive magnetoresistance is observed...

DNA-decorated Graphene Chemical Sensors

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with exceptional electronic properties and enormous potential for applications. Graphene’s promise as a chemical sensor material has been noted but there has been little work on practical chemical sensing using graphene, and in particular, how chemical functionalization may be used to sensitize graphene to chemical vapors. Here we show one route towards im...