• 文献标题:   Electrical properties of the graphene/4H-SiC (0001) interface probed by scanning current spectroscopy
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONDE S, GIANNAZZO F, RAINERI V, YAKIMOVA R, HUNTZINGER JR, TIBERJ A, CAMASSEL J
  • 作者关键词:   electric propertie, epitaxial layer, fermi level, graphene, interface structure, nanostructured material, schottky barrier, silicon compound
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   CNR IMM
  • 被引频次:   81
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.80.241406
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

The current transport across the graphene/4H-SiC interface has been investigated with nanometric lateral resolution by scanning current spectroscopy on both epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on (0001) 4H-SiC and graphene exfoliated from highly oriented pyrolytic graphite deposited on the same substrate [deposited graphene (DG)]. This study reveals that the Schottky barrier height (SBH) of EG/4H-SiC (0.36 +/- 0.1 eV) is similar to 0.49 eV lower than the SBH of DG/4H-SiC (0.85 +/- 0.06 eV). This result is discussed in terms of the Fermi-level pinning similar to 0.49 eV above the Dirac point in EG due to the presence of positively charged states at the interface between the Si face of 4H-SiC and the carbon-rich buffer layer, which is the precursor for EG formation.