• 文献标题:   Tunneling Spectra of a Quasifreestanding Graphene Monolayer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI SY, BAI KK, ZUO WJ, LIU YW, FU ZQ, WANG WX, ZHANG Y, YIN LJ, QIAO JB, HE L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
  • ISSN:   2331-7019
  • 通讯作者地址:   Beijing Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.054031
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Considering the great success of scanning--tunneling--microscopy (STM) studies of graphene in the past ten years, it is quite surprising to notice that there is still a fundamental contradiction in the reported tunneling spectra of the quasifreestanding graphene monolayer. Many groups observed "V-shaped" spectra with linearly vanishing density of states at the Dirac point, whereas others reported spectra with a gap of +/- 60 meV pinned to the Fermi level in the quasifreestanding graphene monolayer. Here, we systematically study the two contradicting tunneling spectra of the quasifreestanding graphene monolayer on various substrates in the presence of different magnetic fields and demonstrate that both spectra are the "correct" spectra. However, the V-shaped spectrum exhibits only the contribution of the low-energy Dirac fermions, whereas the gapped spectrum is contributed by both the low--energy Dirac fermions and the high--energy nearly free-electron states due to the existence of the inelastic tunneling process. Our results indicate that interaction with substrates plays a vital role in affecting the spectra of graphene. We also show that it is possible to switch the tunneling spectra between the two distinct features at the nanoscale through voltage pulses applied to the STM tip.