Bao W S, Liu S Y, Lei X L, Wang C M
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China.
J Phys Condens Matter. 2009 Jul 29;21(30):305302. doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/30/305302. Epub 2009 Jul 8.
Considering electron-impurity, electron-acoustic-phonon and electron-optical-phonon scatterings, the nonlinear steady-state transport properties of graphene are studied theoretically by means of the balance equation approach. We find that the conductivity as a function of electric field strength, E, exhibits strongly nonlinear behavior for E larger than a critical value, E(c)≈0.1 kV cm(-1). With the increase of E from zero, the conductivity first decreases slowly and then it falls rapidly when E>E(c). The dependence of electron temperature on E is also demonstrated.
