• 文献标题:   Silicon-Carbon Bond Inversions Driven by 60-keV Electrons in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUSI T, KOTAKOSKI J, KEPAPTSOGLOU D, MANGLER C, LOVEJOY TC, KRIVANEK OL, ZAN R, BANGERT U, AYALA P, MEYER JC, RAMASSE Q
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Vienna
  • 被引频次:   53
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.115501
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We demonstrate that 60-keV electron irradiation drives the diffusion of threefold-coordinated Si dopants in graphene by one lattice site at a time. First principles simulations reveal that each step is caused by an electron impact on a C atom next to the dopant. Although the atomic motion happens below our experimental time resolution, stochastic analysis of 38 such lattice jumps reveals a probability for their occurrence in a good agreement with the simulations. Conversions from three- to fourfold coordinated dopant structures and the subsequent reverse process are significantly less likely than the direct bond inversion. Our results thus provide a model of nondestructive and atomically precise structural modification and detection for two-dimensional materials.