• 文献标题:   The limits of near field immersion microwave microscopy evaluated by imaging bilayer graphene moire patterns
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   OHLBERG DAA, TAMI D, GADELHA AC, NETO EGS, SANTANA FC, MIRANDA D, AVELINO W, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, CAMPOS LC, RAMIREZ JC, DO REGO CG, JORIO A, MEDEIROSRIBEIRO G
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
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  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-021-23253-2
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Near field scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy can resolve structures as small as 1 nm using radiation with wavelengths of 0.1 m. Combining liquid immersion microscopy concepts with exquisite force control exerted on nanoscale water menisci, concentration of electromagnetic fields in nanometer-size regions was achieved. As a test material we use twisted bilayer graphene, because it provides a sample where the modulation of the moire superstructure pattern can be systematically tuned from angstrom ngstroms up to tens of nanometers. Here we demonstrate that a probe-to-pattern resolution of 10(8) can be obtained by analyzing and adjusting the tip-sample distance influence on the dynamics of water meniscus formation and stability. Here, the authors image twisted bilayer graphene using scanning microwave imaging microscopy, revealing structures with sizes down to 1 nm. They show that is possible by using spontaneously forming nanoscale water menisci that concentrates the microwave fields in small regions.