• 文献标题:   Substrate-Selective Morphology of Cesium Iodide Clusters on Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VATS N, WANG Y, SEN S, SZILAGYI S, OCHNER H, ABB S, BURGHARD M, SIGLE W, KERN K, VAN AKEN PA, RAUSCHENBACH S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, electrospray ionbeam deposition, transmission electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, alkali halide atomic clusters twodimensional crystal
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Max Planck Inst Solid State Res
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.9b10053
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Formation and characterization of low-dimensional nanostructures is crucial for controlling the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene. Here, we study the structure of low-dimensional adsorbates of cesium iodide (CsI) on freestanding graphene using aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy at atomic resolution. CsI is deposited onto graphene as charged clusters by electrospray ion-beam deposition. The interaction with the electron beam forms two-dimensional CsI crystals only on bilayer graphene, while CsI clusters consisting of 4, 6, 7, and 8 ions are exclusively observed on single-layer graphene. Chemical characterization by electron energy-loss spectroscopy imaging and precise structural measurements evidence the possible influence of charge transfer on the structure formation of the CsI clusters and layers, leading to different distances of the Cs and I to the graphene.