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Exploring interlayer Dirac cone coupling in commensurately rotated few-layer graphene on SiC(000-1)

Materials Science 2018-06-19 v1

Abstract

We investigate electronic band-structure images in reciprocal space of few layer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC(000-1). In addition to the observation of commensurate rotation angles of the graphene layers, the k-space images recorded near the Fermi edge highlight structures originating from diffraction of the Dirac cones due to the relative rotation of adjacent layers. The 21.9{\deg} and 27{\deg} rotation angles between two sheets of graphene are responsible for a periodic pattern that can be described with a superlattice unit cells. The superlattice generates replicas of Dirac cones with smaller wave vectors, due to a Brillouin zone folding.

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@article{arxiv.1806.06559,
  title  = {Exploring interlayer Dirac cone coupling in commensurately rotated few-layer graphene on SiC(000-1)},
  author = {C. Mathieu and E. H. Conrad and F. Wang and J. E. Rault and V. Feyer and C. M. Schneider and O. Renault and N. Barrett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.06559},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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