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On the Origin of Photocurrents in Pristine Graphene

  • XXVIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “NANOSTRUCTURES: PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY”, MINSK, REPUBLIC OF BELARUS, SEPTEMBER, 2020. GRAPHENE
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Recently Ma et al. (Nature Nanotech. 14, 145, 2019) reported an intrinsic photocurrent in graphene, which occurs as the authors believe “in a different parameter regime from all the previously observed photothermoelectric or photovoltaic photocurrents in graphene”. Here we present an alternative – obvious and transparent explanation of such experiments. We demonstrate that the photo effect occurs in the p–n junctions formed in graphene samples containing two regions of different widths with different particle concentrations. This difference in concentration for various sample widths is found to result from edge doping of samples.

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The author thanks G.Y. Vasileva, D. Smirnov, A.A. Greshnov, and R.J. Haug for the cooperation.

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  1. Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yu. B. Vasilyev

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Vasilyev, Y.B. On the Origin of Photocurrents in Pristine Graphene. Semiconductors 54, 1664–1665 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782620120416

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