# Structural short - range order and electronic properties of graphene at low temperatures

## TL;DR

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of how short-range structural order affects the electronic properties of graphene at low temperatures, including the density of states, resistivity, and thermal conductivity.

## Contribution

It introduces a model linking short-range order structures to electronic properties and identifies conditions for gap formation in the density of states.

## Key findings

- Conditions for gap appearance and disappearance in DOS are identified.
- Temperature dependence of electronic properties is characterized.
- Large-area structural inhomogeneities significantly influence electronic behavior.

## Abstract

A theoretical study of the DOS, resistivity and thermal conductivity of a metallized epitaxial graphene with impurities and structural inhomogeneous of the short-range order type is performed. The conditions for the appearance and disappearance of a gap in DOS are obtained for the case where the location of defects changes. A temperature dependence of relaxation time, DOS, resistivity and thermal conductivity is described only in the presence of the structures forming large-area cells in the graphene layer.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1704.01341