• 文献标题:   Atomic force spectroscopy and density-functional study of graphene corrugation on Ru(0001)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VOLOSHINA E, DEDKOV Y
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Humboldt Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.93.235418
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Graphene, the thinnest material in the world, can form moire structures on different substrates, including graphite, h-BN, or metal surfaces. In such systems, the structure of graphene, i.e., its corrugation, as well as its electronic and elastic properties, are defined by the combination of the system geometry and local interaction strength at the interface. The corrugation in such structures on metals is heavily extracted from diffraction or local probe microscopy experiments, and it can be obtained only via comparison with theoretical data, which usually simulate the experimental findings. Here we show that graphene corrugation on metals can be measured directly employing atomic force spectroscopy, and the obtained value coincides with state-of-the-art theoretical results. The presented results demonstrate an unexpected space selectivity for the Lambda f(z) signal in the atomic force spectroscopy in the moire graphene lattice on Ru(0001), which is explained by the different response of the graphene layer on the indentation process. We also address the elastic reaction of the formed graphene nanodoms on the indentation process by the scanning tip that is important for the modeling and fabrication of graphene-based nanoresonators on the nanoscale.