• 文献标题:   Breakdown of Universal Scaling for Nanometer-Sized Bubbles in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VILLARREAL R, LIN PC, FARAJI F, HASSANI N, BANA H, ZARKUA Z, NAIR MN, TSAI HC, AUGE M, JUNGE F, HOFSAESS HC, DE GENDT S, DE FEYTER S, BREMS S, AHLGREN EH, NEYTS EC, COVACI L, PEETERS FM, NEEKAMAL M, PEREIRA LMC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, nanobubble, aspect ratio, scanning tunneling microscopy
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02470 EA SEP 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We report the formation of nanobubbles on graphene with a radius of the order of 1 nm, using ultralow energy implantation of noble gas ions (He, Ne, Ar) into graphene grown on a Pt(111) surface. We show that the universal scaling of the aspect ratio, which has previously been established for larger bubbles, breaks down when the bubble radius approaches 1 nm, resulting in much larger aspect ratios. Moreover, we observe that the bubble stability and aspect ratio depend on the substrate onto which the graphene is grown (bubbles are stable for Pt but not for Cu) and trapped element. We interpret these dependencies in terms of the atomic compressibility of the noble gas as well as of the adhesion energies between graphene, the substrate, and trapped atoms.