• 文献标题:   Templating of arrays of Ru nanoclusters by monolayer graphene/Ru Moires with different periodicities
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUTTER E, WANG B, ALBRECHT P, LAHIRI J, BOCQUET ML, SUTTER P
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Brookhaven Natl Lab
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/24/31/314201
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We have studied the formation of Ru nanocluster arrays on several monolayer graphene/Ru Moire structures with different relative orientations of the graphene and Ru lattices. Experiments and ab initio calculations clearly show that the presence of a graphene/Ru Moire does not guarantee the ordered adsorption of Ru nanoclusters. The simultaneous deposition of Ru onto coexisting Moires demonstrates that a structure with aligned graphene and Ru lattices templates the formation of arrays of small Ru clusters with narrow size spread and adsorption exclusively in a single site (the 'low fcc' site). The other Moires considered here gave rise to substantially larger clusters with broader size distribution and without detectable site selectivity. Calculations explain these findings via the density of states (DOS) at different sites of the graphene/ Ru Moire. The ordered nucleation of many small clusters instead of incorporation of metal atoms into larger ones requires one Moire site with a large DOS at the Fermi level, so that the binding of metal adatoms to this site is stronger than to competing sites in the Moire and to existing metal clusters.