• 文献标题:   The Hide-and-Seek of Grain Boundaries from Moire Pattern Fringe of Two-Dimensional Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM JH, KIM K, LEE Z
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Ulsan Natl Inst Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep12508
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Grain boundaries (GBs) commonly exist in crystalline materials and affect various properties of materials. The facile identification of GBs is one of the significant requirements for systematical study of polycrystalline materials including recently emerging two-dimensional materials. Previous observations of GBs have been performed by various tools including high resolution transmission electron microscopy. However, a method to easily identify GBs, especially in the case of low-angle GBs, has not yet been well established. In this paper, we choose graphene bilayers with a GB as a model system and investigate the effects of interlayer rotations to the identification of GBs. We provide a critical condition between adjacent moire fringe spacings, which determines the possibility of GB recognition. In addition, for monolayer graphene with a grain boundary, we demonstrate that low-angle GBs can be distinguished easily by inducing moire patterns deliberately with an artificial reference overlay.