• 文献标题:   Semiconductor-Metal Transition and Band-Gap Tuning in Quasi-Free-Standing Epitaxial Bilayer Graphene on SiC
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUGAWARA K, SATO T, KANETANI K, TAKAHASHI T
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, hydrogen, band gap, potassium
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • ISSN:   0031-9015
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tohoku Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1143/JPSJ.80.024705
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of quasi-free-standing bilayer graphene epitaxially grown on silicon carbide. Prepared bilayer graphene shows a semiconducting behavior with a finite energy gap at the Fermi level in contrast to the theoretical prediction. We found that potassium-deposition on the sample leads to the semiconductor-to-metal transition together with the enhancement of the gap energy between the pi and pi* bands. The observed controllable tuning of the Fermi-level position and the gap energy provides an important step toward the band-gap engineering with bilayer graphene.