• 文献标题:   Low-energy electron point projection microscopy of suspended graphene, the ultimate 'microscope slide'
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MUTUS JY, LIVADARU L, ROBINSON JT, URBAN R, SALOMONS MH, CLOUTIER M, WOLKOW RA
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  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Alberta
  • 被引频次:   35
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/063011
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Point projection microscopy (PPM) is used to image suspended graphene by using low-energy electrons (100-205 eV). Because of the low energies used, the graphene is neither damaged nor contaminated by the electron beam for doses of the order of 10(7) electrons per nm(2). The transparency of graphene is measured to be 74%, equivalent to electron transmission through a sheet twice as thick as the covalent radius of sp(2)-bonded carbon. Also observed is rippling in the structure of the suspended graphene, with a wavelength of approximately 26 nm. The interference of the electron beam due to diffraction off the edge of a graphene knife edge is observed and is used to calculate a virtual source size of 4.7 +/- 0.6 angstrom for the electron emitter. It is demonstrated that graphene can serve as both the anode and the substrate in PPM, thereby avoiding distortions due to strong field gradients around nanoscale objects. Graphene can be used to image objects suspended on the sheet using PPM and, in the future, electron holography.