• 文献标题:   Substrate effect on the electronic properties of graphene on vicinal Pt(111)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NAIR MN, CELIS A, NICOLAS F, KUBSKY S, TALEBIBRAHIMI A, TEJEDA A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, bandgap, electronic propertie, substrate vicinality, atomic structure
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
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  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.150593 EA JUL 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The atomic structure and electronic properties of monolayer graphene on a curved multi-nano-vicinal Pt (1 1 1) substrate are investigated with a low-energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy and angleresolved photoemission spectroscopy. Despite graphene grows continuously over the terraces and step bunching areas, the spatial periodicity also varies by varying the vicinal angle of the substrate. This superperiodicity has been evidenced by splitting of first order Pt spots in LEED and from STM. The photoemission spectroscopy unravels that the linearly dispersing pi band of graphene is affected by the step periodicity as evidenced by the opening of bandgaps. The gaps opening occurs at the intersection of the main graphene band with Umklapp bands due to the superperiodicity of the one-dimensional nanostructured substrate. The energy and momentum locations of the minigaps change with the superperiodicity, which is related to the spatial periodicity and vicinal angle of the substrate. Our results show a simple way to tune the electronic properties of epitaxial graphene by tuning the substrate vicinality.