Cavity-enhanced optical Hall effect in epitaxial graphene detected at terahertz frequencies

Cavity-enhanced optical Hall effect at terahertz (THz) frequencies is employed to determine the free charge carrier properties in epitaxial graphene (EG) with different number of layers grown by high temperature sublimation on 4H-SiC(0001). We find that one monolayer (ML) EG possesses p-type conductivity with a free hole concentration in the low 10(12)cm(-2) range and a free hole mobility parameter as high as 1550 cm(2)/Vs. We also find that 6 ML EG shows n-type doping behavior with a much lower free electron mobility parameter of 470 cm(2)/Vs and an order of magnitude higher free electron density in the low 10(13) cm(-2) range. The observed differences are discussed. The cavity-enhanced THz optical Hall effect is demonstrated to be an excellent tool for contactless access to the type of free charge carriers and their properties in two-dimensional materials such as EG. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.