• 文献标题:   Anomalous optical response of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride substrates
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TOKSUMAKOV AN, ERMOLAEV GA, TATMYSHEVSKIY MK, KLISHIN YA, SLAVICH AS, BEGICHEV IV, STOSIC D, YAKUBOVSKY DI, KVASHNIN DG, VYSHNEVYY AA, ARSENIN AV, VOLKOV VS, GHAZARYAN DA
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  • 出版物名称:   COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   2399-3650
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  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1038/s42005-023-01129-9
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Two-dimensional materials look poised to revolutionize information and communication technologies. Here, the authors leveraged spatially resolved ellipsometry to engineer the optical absorption of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride substrates, thereby disclosing effective solutions for flexible optoelectronics. Graphene/hBN heterostructures can be considered as one of the basic building blocks for the next-generation optoelectronics mostly owing to the record-high electron mobilities. However, currently, the studies of the intrinsic optical properties of graphene are limited to the standard substrates (SiO2/Si, glass, quartz) despite the growing interest in graphene/hBN heterostructures. This can be attributed to a challenging task of the determination of hBN's strongly anisotropic dielectric tensor in the total optical response. In this study, we overcome this issue through imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry utilizing simultaneous analysis of hBN's optical response with and without graphene monolayers. Our technique allowed us to retrieve the optical constants of graphene from graphene/hBN heterostructures in a broad spectral range of 250-950 nm. Our results suggest that graphene's absorption on hBN may exceed the one of graphene on SiO2/Si by about 60%.