• 文献标题:   Flower-Shaped Domains and Wrinkles in Trilayer Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LALMI B, GIRARD JC, PALLECCHI E, SILLY M, DAVID C, LATIL S, SIROTTI F, OUERGHI A
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   CNRS
  • 被引频次:   36
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep04066
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Trilayer graphene is of particular interest to the 2D materials community because of its unique tunable electronic structure. However, to date, there is a lack of fundamental understanding of the properties of epitaxial trilayer graphene on silicon carbide. Here, following successful synthesis of large-area uniform trilayer graphene, atomic force microscopy (AFM) showed that the trilayer graphene on 6H-SiC(0001) was uniform over a large scale. Additionally, distinct defects, identified as flower-shaped domains and isolated wrinkle structures, were observed randomly on the surface using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS). These carbon nanostructures formed during growth, has different structural and electronic properties when compared with the adjacent flat regions of the graphene. Finally, using low temperature STM/STS at 4K, we found that the isolated wrinkles showed an irreversible rotational motion between two 60 degrees configurations at different densities of states.