• 文献标题:   General approach to understanding the electronic structure of graphene on metals
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VOLOSHINA EN, DEDKOV YS
  • 作者关键词:   electronic structure of graphene, graphenemetal interface, origin of band gap formation, density functional theory
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
  • ISSN:   2053-1591
  • 通讯作者地址:   Humboldt Univ
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1088/2053-1591/1/3/035603
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

This manuscript presents the general approach to the understanding of the connection between bonding mechanism and electronic structure of graphene on metals. To demonstrate its validity, two limiting cases of 'weakly' and 'strongly' bonded graphene on Al(111) and Ni(111) are considered, where the Dirac cone is preserved or fully destroyed, respectively. Furthermore, the electronic structure, i.e. doping level, hybridization effects, as well as a gap formation at the Dirac point of the intermediate system, graphene/Cu(111), is fully understood in the framework of the proposed approach. This work summarises the long-term debates regarding connection of the bonding strength and the valence band modification in the graphene/metal systems and paves a way for the effective control of the electronic states of graphene in the vicinity of the Fermi level.