• 文献标题:   Atomistic Interrogation of B-N Co-dopant Structures and Their Electronic Effects in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SCHIROS T, NORDLUND D, PALOVA L, ZHAO LY, LEVENDORF M, JAYE C, REICHMAN D, PARK J, HYBERTSEN M, PASUPATHY A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, doping, xray spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, chemical bonding, atomic design, electronic structure, work function
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Columbia Univ
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.6b01318
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Chemical doping has been demonstrated to be an effective method for producing high-quality, large-area graphene with controlled carrier concentrations and an atomically tailored work function. The emergent optoelectronic properties and surface reactivity of carbon nanostructures are dictated by the microstructure of atomic dopants. Co doping of graphene with boron and nitrogen offers the possibility to further tune the electronic properties of graphene at the atomic level, potentially creating p- and n-type domains in a single carbon sheet, opening a gap between valence and conduction bands in the 2-D semimetal. Using a suite of high-resolution synchrotron-based X-ray techniques, scanning tunneling microscopy, and density functional theory based computation we visualize and characterize B-N dopant bond structures and their electronic effects at the atomic level in single-layer graphene grown on a copper substrate. We find there is a thermodynamic driving force for B and N atoms to cluster into BNC structures in graphene, rather than randomly distribute into isolated B and N graphitic dopants, although under the present growth conditions, kinetics limit segregation of large B N domains. We observe that the doping effect of these BNC structures, which open a small band gap in graphene, follows the B:N ratio (B > N, p-type; B < N, n-type; B=N, neutral). We attribute this to the comparable electron-withdrawing and-donating effects, respectively, of individual graphitic B and N dopants, although local electrostatics also play a role in the work function change.