• 文献标题:   Local Electronic Properties of Graphene on a BN Substrate via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DECKER R, WANG Y, BRAR VW, REGAN W, TSAI HZ, WU Q, GANNETT W, ZETTL A, CROMMIE MF
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, boron nitride, stm, moire
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Berkeley
  • 被引频次:   388
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl2005115
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

The use of boron nitride (BN) as a substrate for graphene nanodevices has attracted much interest since the recent report that BN greatly improves the mobility of charge carriers in graphene compared to standard SiO2 substrates. We have explored the local microscopic properties of graphene on a BN substrate using scanning tunneling microscopy. We find that BN substrates result in extraordinarily flat graphene layers that display microscopic Moire patterns arising from the relative orientation of the graphene and BN lattices. Gate-dependent dI/dV spectra of graphene on BN exhibit spectroscopic features that are sharper than those obtained for graphene on SiO2. We observe a significant reduction in local microscopic charge inhomogeneity for graphene on BN compared to graphene on SiO2.