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Depth profiling of graphene with high-resolution ion beam analysis is a practical method for analysis of monolayer thicknesses of graphene. Not only is the energy resolution sufficient to resolve graphene from underlying SiC, but by use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-11 M. Copel , S. Oida , A. Kasry , A. A. Bol , J. B. Hannon , R. M. Tromp

Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We report on spatial measurements of the superconducting proximity effect in epitaxial graphene induced by a graphene-superconductor interface. Superconducting aluminum films were grown on epitaxial multilayer graphene on SiC. The aluminum…

The {\AA}ngstr\"om-sized probe of the scanning transmission electron microscope can visualize and collect spectra from single atoms. This can unambiguously resolve the chemical structure of materials, but not their isotopic composition.…

Quantum confinement of graphene Dirac-like electrons in artificially crafted nanometer structures is a long sought goal that would provide a strategy to selectively tune the electronic properties of graphene, including bandgap opening or…

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

Twist, as a simple and unique degree of freedom, could lead to enormous novel quantum phenomena in bilayer graphene. A small rotation angle introduces low-energy van Hove singularities (VHSs) approaching the Fermi level, which result in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-07 Wei-Jie Zuo , Jia-Bin Qiao , Dong-Lin Ma , Long-Jing Yin , Gan Sun , Jun-Yang Zhang , Li-Yang Guan , Lin He

Electrostatic gating offers elegant ways to simultaneously strain and dope atomically thin membranes. Here, we report on a detailed \textit{in situ} Raman scattering study on graphene, suspended over a Si/SiO$_2$ substrate. In such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Dominik Metten , Guillaume Froehlicher , Stéphane Berciaud

A cooled scanning probe microscope (SPM) has been used to image cyclotron orbits of electrons through high-mobility graphene in a magnetic field.1-5 In a hBN-graphene-hBN device patterned into a hall bar geometry, the magnetic field focuses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Sagar Bhandari , Andrew Lin , Robert M. Westervelt

A technique to locally generate mechanical vibrations in freestanding graphene using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is presented. The frequency of the mechanical vibrations is tuned over nearly four decades and is centered around 10…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Xu , J. K. Schoelz , S. D. Barber , M. L. Ackerman , P. M. Thibado

The electronic structure of graphene on Cu(111) and Cu(100) single crystals is investigated using low energy electron microscopy, low energy electron diffraction and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. On both substrates the graphene…

Interface strain can significantly influence the mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional materials. Here we investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy how the stress introduced by a mismatched interface affects…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-20 Zhiyu Zou , Laerte L. Patera , Giovanni Comelli , Cristina Africh

We study the mechanics of pressurized graphene membranes using an experimental configuration that allows the determination of the elasticity of graphene and the adhesion energy between a substrate and a graphene (or other two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Narasimha G. Boddeti , Steven P. Koenig , Rong Long , Jianliang Xiao , J. Scott Bunch , Martin L. Dunn

The link between changes in the material crystal structure and its mechanical, electronic, magnetic, and optical functionalities - known as the structure-property relationship - is the cornerstone of the contemporary materials science…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Maxim Ziatdinov , Shintaro Fujii , Manabu Kiguchi , Toshiaki Enoki , Stephen Jesse , Sergei Kalinin

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju

Spatially varying strained graphene can acquire interesting electronic properties because of the strain-induced valley-dependent gauge (pseudomagnetic) fields1,2. Here we report the realization of strained graphene regions located close to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 Jun-Fang Liu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Bin Qiao , Yu Zhou , Jia-Cai Nie , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Lin He

We investigate the electronic properties of heterostructures based on ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) crystalline layers sandwiched between two layers of graphene as well as other conducting materials (graphite, gold). The tunnel…

A description is given of a three-dimensional box-shaped graphene (BSG) nanostructure formed/uncovered by mechanical cleavage of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG). The discovered nanostructure is a multilayer system of parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Rostislav V. Lapshin

A series of measurements using a novel technique called electrostatic-manipulation scanning tunneling microscopy were performed on a highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface. The electrostatic interaction between the STM tip and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 P. Xu , Y. Yang , S. D. Barber , J. K. Schoelz , D. Qi , M. L. Ackerman , L. Bellaiche , P. M. Thibado

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś