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Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) has yielded significant insight on the electronic structure of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials. STS directly measures a fundamental and directly calculable quantity: the single…

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

By utilizing the current transients in scanning tunneling spectroscopy, the local interfacial electronics between multiwalled carbon nanotubes and several supporting substrates has been investigated. Voltage offsets in the tunneling spectra…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Czerw , B. Foley , D. Tekleab , A. Rubio , P. M. Ajayan , D. L. Carroll

Hydrocarbon contamination is an ever-present factor to consider in surface science measurements. In the case of van der Waals material surfaces, the structure of this contamination has become known in recent years as a self-assembled layer…

This paper reviews the theoretical work undertaken using density functional theory (DFT) to explore graphene's interactions with its surroundings. We look at the impact of substrates, gate dielectrics and edge effects on the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Priyamvada Jadaun , Bhagawan R. Sahu , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

In this study, we describe a new experimental approach based on constant-current scanning tunneling spectroscopy to controllably and reversibly pull freestanding graphene membranes up to 35 nm from their equilibrium height. In addition, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 P. Xu , Y. Yang , S. D. Barber , M. L. Ackerman , J. K. Schoelz , D. Qi , I. A. Kornev , L. Dong , L. Bellaiche , S. Barraza-Lopez , P. M. Thibado

A near-field scanning optical microscope is used to locally induce photocurrent in a graphene transistor with high spatial resolution. By analyzing the spatially resolved photo-response, we find that in the n-type conduction regime a p-n-p…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Mueller , F. Xia , M. Freitag , J. Tsang , Ph. Avouris

We study interfacial water trapped between a sheet of graphene and a muscovite (mica) surface using Raman spectroscopy and ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (UHV-STM) at room temperature. We are able to image the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Kevin T. He , Joshua D. Wood , Gregory P. Doidge , Eric Pop , Joseph W. Lyding

Epitaxial graphene grown on transition metal surfaces typically exhibits a moir\'e pattern due to the lattice mismatch between graphene and the underlying metal surface. We use both scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force…

Gallium nitride nanowire and nanorod substrates with different morphology are prospective platforms allowing to control the local strain distribution in graphene films top of them, resulting in an induction of pseudomagnetic fields. Atomic…

We report room temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study of bilayer graphene prepared by mechanical exfoliation on SiO$_2$/Si surface and electrically contacted with gold pads using a mechanical mask. The bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Shyam K. Choudhary , Anjan K. Gupta

It is promising to apply quantum-mechanically confined graphene systems in field-effect transistors. High stability, superior performance, and large-scale integration are the main challenges facing the practical application of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Liang Feng Huang , Zhi Zeng

Experimental advances allow for the inclusion of multiple probes to measure the transport properties of a sample surface. We develop a theory of dual-probe scanning tunnelling microscopy using a Green's Function formalism, and apply it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Dirch H. Petersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We describe scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) measurements performed on individual cobalt (Co) atoms deposited onto backgated graphene devices. We find that Co adatoms on graphene can be ionized by either the application of a global…

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to investigate two types of hydrogen defect structures on monolayer graphene supported by hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in a gated field-effect transistor configuration. The first H-defect…

Graphene has extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties, making it a promising material for membrane based nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Here, chemical-vapor-deposited graphene is transferred onto target substrates to…

Graphene/silicon heterostructures have attracted tremendous interest as a new platform for diverse electronic and photonic devices such as barristors, solar cells, optical modulators, and chemical sensors. The studies to date largely focus…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuan Liu , Jiming Sheng , Hao Wu , Qiyuan He , Hung-Chieh Cheng , Muhammad Imran Shakir , Yu Huang , Xiangfeng Duan

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

Since its first isolation in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed-matter physics as well as offering tremendous…