• 文献标题:   Pinning of a two-dimensional membrane on top of a patterned substrate: The case of graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KUSMINSKIY SV, CAMPBELL DK, CASTRO NETO AH, GUINEA F
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Freie Univ
  • 被引频次:   49
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.83.165405
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We study the pinning of a two-dimensional membrane to a patterned substrate within elastic theory both in the bending rigidity and in the strain-dominated regimes. We find that both the in-plane strains and the bending rigidity can lead to depinning. We show from energetic arguments that the system experiences a first-order phase transition between the attached configuration to a partially detached one when the relevant parameters of the substrate are varied, and we construct a qualitative phase diagram. Our results are confirmed through analytical solutions for some simple geometries of the substrate's profile. We apply our model to the case of graphene on top of a SiO2 substrate and show that typical orders of magnitude for corrugations imply graphene will be partially detached from the substrate.