• 文献标题:   Graphene on Ni(111): Electronic Corrugation and Dynamics from Helium Atom Scattering
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TAMTOGL A, BAHN E, ZHU JD, FOUQUET P, ELLIS J, ALLISON W
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
  • ISSN:   1932-7447
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Cambridge
  • 被引频次:   27
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b08284
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Using helium atom scattering, we have studied the structure and dynamics of a graphene layer prepared in situ on a Ni(111) surface. Graphene/Ni(111) exhibits a helium reflectivity of similar to 20% for a thermal helium atom beam and a particularly small surface electron density corrugation ((0.06 +/- 0.02) angstrom peak to peak height). The Debye-Waller attenuation of the elastic diffraction peaks of graphene/Ni(111) and Ni(111) was measured at surface temperatures between 150 and 740 K. A surface Debye temperature of theta(D) = (784 +/- 14) K is determined for the graphene/Ni(111) system and theta(D) = (388 +/- 7) K for Ni(111), suggesting that the interlayer interaction between graphene and the Ni substrate is intermediary between those for strongly interacting systems like graphene/Ru(0001) and weakly interacting systems like graphene/Pt(111). In addition we present measurements of low frequency surface phonon modes on graphene/Ni(111) where the phonon modes of the Ni(111) substrate can be clearly observed. The similarity of these findings with the graphene/Ru(0001) system indicates that the bonding of graphene to a metal substrate alters the dynamic properties of the graphene surface strongly and is responsible for the high helium reflectivity of these systems.