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在SiC(0001)上外延石墨烯中观察到的小尺度旋转无序

Small scale rotational disorder observed in epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001)

Andrew L. Walter, Aaron Bostwick, Florian Speck, Markus Ostler, Keun Su Kim, Young Jun Chang, Luca Moreschini, Davide Innocenti, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, Eli Rotenberg

摘要:

在电子设备中使用石墨烯的兴趣激发了对这种非凡材料的研究爆炸。简单的线性狄拉克锥能带结构提供了一个独特的可能性,研究其更精细的细节,角分辨光电子能谱学(ARPES)。事实上,ARPES已经在金属衬底上生长的石墨烯上进行,但电子应用需要绝缘衬底。通过碳化硅(SiC)的热分解生长的外延石墨烯由于所产生的大规模、均匀的石墨烯层而为此是理想的候选者。SiC上外延石墨烯的实验光谱函数已经被广泛研究。然而,到目前为止,费米面的谱宽各向异性的原因尚未确定。在目前的工作中,我们表明,通过比较的光谱函数的半经验模型,各向异性是由于小规模的旋转无序($\sim\pm$ 0.15 $^{\circ}$)的石墨烯在SiC(0001)样品上生长的石墨烯域。除了在理解石墨烯的电子结构方面的直接好处之外,这项工作还提出了一种解释相关ARPES数据中类似变化的机制。

英文摘要:

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 angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES). Indeed, ARPES has been performed on graphene grown on metal substrates but electronic applications require an insulating substrate. Epitaxial graphene grown by the thermal decomposition of silicon carbide (SiC) is an ideal candidate for this due to the large scale, uniform graphene layers produced. The experimental spectral function of epitaxial graphene on SiC has been extensively studied. However, until now the cause of an anisotropy in the spectral width of the Fermi surface has not been determined. In the current work we show, by comparison of the spectral function to a semi-empirical model, that the anisotropy is due to small scale rotational disorder ($\sim\pm$ 0.15$^{\circ}$) of graphene domains in graphene grown on SiC(0001) samples. In addition to the direct benefit in the understanding of graphene's electronic structure this work suggests a mechanism to explain similar variations in related ARPES data.

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