R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of November 27th through December 4th, 2022
Monday, November 28th, 2022
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
- Imaging the Breaking of Electrostatic Dams in Graphene for Ballistic and Viscous Fluids
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Zachary Krebs , UW-Madison
- Abstract: Under special conditions the charge carriers in a material can behave as a viscous fluid. In this work, we investigate such behavior by using scanning tunneling potentiometry to probe the nm-scale flow dynamics of electron fluids in graphene as they pass through constrictions defined by smooth and tunable in-plane p-n junction barriers. We observe that as the sample temperature and channel widths are increased, the electronic fluid flow undergoes a Knudsen-to-Gurzhi transition from ballistic to viscous flow that is characterized by a channel conductance that exceeds the ballistic limit, and suppressed charge accumulation against the barriers. Our results are well-modeled by finite-element simulations of 2D viscous current flow, and they illustrate how Fermi liquid flow evolves with carrier density, channel width, and temperature.
- Host: Alex Levchenko
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
- No events scheduled