• 文献标题:   Selective fabrication of free-standing ABA and ABC trilayer graphene with/without Dirac-cone energy bands
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUGAWARA K, YAMAMURA N, MATSUDA K, NORIMATSU W, KUSUNOKI M, SATO T, TAKAHASHI T
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  • 出版物名称:   NPG ASIA MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1884-4049 EI 1884-4057
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tohoku Univ
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1038/am.2017.238
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is a single-layer carbon sheet with a honeycomb structure, and bilayer graphene consists of two graphene sheets with AB stacking. In trilayer graphene, the third graphene sheet has two possible stacking sequences, A or C, when it is overlaid on bilayer graphene. It has been theoretically predicted that trilayer graphene exhibits a variety of novel electronic properties with/without a Dirac-cone band, depending on the stacking sequence. In this regard, trilayer graphene has a high potential for widening the capability of graphene-based electronic devices. However, the difficulty of selective fabrication has hindered the progress of research. Here, we report the first success in the selective fabrication of quasi-free-standing trilayer graphene with ABA or ABC stacking grown epitaxially on hydrogen-terminated silicon carbide. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) clearly demonstrated that our trilayer graphene with ABA stacking has a massless Dirac-like band near the Fermi level, while that with ABC stacking shows a parabolic non-Dirac-like band dispersion.