Charge and Spin Transport in Disordered Graphene-Based Materials [electronic resource] / by Dinh Van Tuan.
Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. ResearchPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016Edition: 1st ed. 2016Description: XVI, 153 p. 68 illus., 53 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783319255712
- 620.5 23
- QC176.8.N35
- T174.7

Introduction -- Electronic and Transport Properties of Graphene -- The Real Space Order O(N) Transport Formalism -- Transport in Disordered Graphene -- Spin Transport in Disordered Graphene -- Conclusions.
This thesis presents an in-depth theoretical analysis of charge and spin transport properties in complex forms of disordered graphene. It relies on innovative real space computational methods of the time-dependent spreading of electronic wave packets. First a universal scaling law of the elastic mean free path versus the average grain size is predicted for polycrystalline morphologies, and charge mobilities of up to 300.000 cm2/V.s are determined for 1 micron grain size, while amorphous graphene membranes are shown to behave as Anderson insulators. An unprecedented spin relaxation mechanism, unique to graphene and driven by spin/pseudospin entanglement is then reported in the presence of weak spin-orbit interaction (gold ad-atom impurities) together with the prediction of a crossover from a quantum spin Hall Effect to spin Hall effect (for thallium ad-atoms), depending on the degree of surface ad-atom segregation and the resulting island diameter.