• 文献标题:   Microscopic insight into the single step growth of in-plane heterostructures between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NGUYEN TH, PERILLI D, CATTELAN M, LIU HS, SEDONA F, FOX NA, DI VALENTIN C, AGNOLI S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, hbn, heterostructure, scanning tunneling microscopy, density functional theory dft
  • 出版物名称:   NANO RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1998-0124 EI 1998-0000
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Padua
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12274-019-2276-0
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene-h-BN hybrid nanostructures are grown in one step on the Pt(111) surface by ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition using a single precursor, the dimethylamino borane complex. By varying the deposition conditions, different nanostructures ranging from a fully continuous hybrid monolayer to well-separated Janus nanodots can be obtained. The growth starts with heterogeneous nucleation on morphological defects such as Pt step edges and proceeds by the addition of small clusters formed by the decomposition of the dimethylamino borane complex. Scanning tunneling microscopy measurements indicate that a sharp zigzag in-plane boundary is formed when graphene grows aligned with the Pt substrate and consequently with the h-BN layer as well. When graphene is rotated by 30 degrees, the graphene armchair edges are seamlessly connected to h-BN zigzag edges. This is confirmed by a thorough density functional theory (DFT) study. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data suggests that both h-BN and graphene present the typical electronic structure of self-standing non-interacting materials.