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Local electronic structures of nanometer-sized patches of epitaxial graphene and its interface layer with SiC(0001) have been studied by atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Localized states belonging to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Cervenka , K. van de Ruit , C. F. J. Flipse

Epitaxial growth of graphene on transition metal substrates is an important route for obtaining large scale graphene. However, the interaction between graphene and the substrate often leads to multiple orientations, distorted graphene band…

Transport in ultrathin graphite grown on silicon carbide is dominated by the electron-doped epitaxial layer at the interface. Weak anti-localization in 2D samples manifests itself as a broad cusp-like depression in the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaosong Wu , Xuebin Li , Zhimin Song , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer

The early stages of epitaxial graphene layer growth on the Si-terminated 6H-SiC(0001) are investigated by Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and depolarized Raman spectroscopy. The selection of the depolarized component of the scattered…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-20 Nicola Ferralis , Roya Maboudian , Carlo Carraro

Ultrathin semiconductors present various novel electronic properties. The first experimental realized two-dimensional (2D) material is graphene. Searching 2D materials with heavy elements bring the attention to Si, Ge and Sn. 2D buckled…

The electronic transport properties of graphene-based superlattice structures are investigated. A graphene-based modulation-doped superlattice structure geometry is proposed and consist of periodically arranged alternate layers:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

Graphene has a multitude of striking properties that make it an exceedingly attractive material for various applications, many of which will emerge over the next decade. However, one of the most promising applications lie in exploiting its…

This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of mechanical deformations, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Gerardo G. Naumis , Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Humberto Terrones

This work presents a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in graphene-related systems using the first-principles method. The geometric and electronic properties are greatly diversified by the number of layers, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We probe the local inhomogeneities of the electronic properties of graphene at the nanoscale using scanning probe microscopy techniques. First, we focus on the study of the electronic inhomogeneities caused by the graphene-substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 A. Castellanos-Gomez , Arramel , M. Wojtaszek , R. H. M. Smit , N. Tombros , N. Agraït , B. J. van Wees , G. Rubio-Bollinger

The richness of optical and electronic properties of graphene attracts enormous interest. Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency, in addition to flexibility, robustness and environmental stability. So far, the main focus has…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Bonaccorso , Z. Sun , T. Hasan , A. C. Ferrari

On the SiC(0001) surface (the silicon face of SiC), epitaxial graphene is obtained by sublimation of Si from the substrate. The graphene film is separated from the bulk by a carbon-rich interface layer (hereafter called the buffer layer)…

Interest in the use of graphene in electronic devices has motivated an explosion in the study of this remarkable material. The simple, linear Dirac cone band structure offers a unique possibility to investigate its finer details by…

Graphene research is currently one of the largest fields in condensed matter. Due to its unusual electronic spectrum with Dirac-like quasiparticles, and the fact that it is a unique example of a metallic membrane, graphene has properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-22 Antonio H. Castro Neto

Epitaxial graphene films were grown in vacuo by silicon sublimation from the (0001) and (000-1) faces of 4H- and 6H-SiC. Hall effect mobilities and sheet carrier densities of the films were measured at 300 K and 77 K and the data depended…

A model is proposed to study the electronic structure of slightly curved graphene sheets with an arbitrary number of pentagon-heptagon pairs and Stone-Wales defects based on a cosmological analogy. The disorder induced by curvature produces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Straintronic devices made of carbon-based materials have been pushed up due to the graphene high mechanical flexibility and the possibility of interesting changes in transport properties. Properly designed strained systems have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 V. Torres , D. Faria , A. Latgé

The industrial realization of graphene has so far been limited by challenges related to the quality, reproducibility, and high process temperatures required to manufacture graphene on suitable substrates. We demonstrate that epitaxial…

Epitaxial growth critically influences structural and electronic properties of organic semiconductors. Graphene serves as a prominent van der Waals template for molecular self-assembly; however, graphene on SiC is intrinsically…

Structured growth of high quality graphene is necessary for technological development of carbon based electronics. Specifically, control of the bunching and placement of surface steps under epitaxial graphene on SiC is an important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 James Palmer , Jan Kunc , Yike Hu , John Hankinson , Zelei Guo , Claire Berger , Walt de Heer