• 文献标题:   Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of finite-size twisted bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG WX, JIANG H, ZHANG Y, LI SY, LIU HW, LI XQ, WU XS, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.96.115434
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Finite-size twisted bilayer graphene (TBG, where here the TBG is of nanoscale size) is quite unstable and will change its structure to a Bernal (or AB-stacking) bilayer with a much lower energy. Therefore, the lack of finite-size TBG makes its electronic properties difficult to access in experiments. In this paper, a special confined TBG is obtained in the overlaid area of two continuous misoriented graphene sheets. The width of the confined region of the TBG changes gradually from about 22 to 0 nm. By using scanning tunneling microscopy, we study carefully the structure and the electronic properties of finite-size TBG. Our results indicate that the low-energy electronic properties, including twist-induced Van Hove singularities (VHSs) and spatial modulation of the local density of states, are strongly affected by the translational symmetry breaking of the finite-size TBG. However, the electronic properties above the energy of the VHSs are almost not influenced by quantum confinement even when the width of the TBG is reduced to only a single moire spot.