• 文献标题:   Giant tunnel-electron injection in nitrogen-doped graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LAGOUTE J, JOUCKEN F, REPAIN V, TISON Y, CHACON C, BELLEC A, GIRARD Y, SPORKEN R, CONRAD EH, DUCASTELLE F, PALSGAARD M, ANDERSEN NP, BRANDBYGE M, ROUSSET S
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121 EI 1550-235X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Paris 07
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.91.125442
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments have been performed to measure the local electron injection in nitrogen-doped graphene on SiC(000<(1)overbar>) and were successfully compared to ab initio calculations. In graphene, a gaplike feature is measured around the Fermi level due to a phonon-mediated tunneling channel. At nitrogen sites, this feature vanishes due to an increase of the elastic channel that is allowed because of symmetry breaking induced by the nitrogen atoms. A large conductance enhancement by a factor of up to 500 was measured at the Fermi level by comparing local spectroscopy at nitrogen sites and at carbon sites. Nitrogen doping can therefore be proposed as a way to improve tunnel-electron injection in graphene.