• 文献标题:   Nucleation and growth of nickel nanoclusters on graphene Moireacute on Rh(111)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SICOT M, BOUVRON S, ZANDER O, RUDIGER U, DEDKOV YS, FONIN M
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, nanostructured material, nickel, nucleation, rhodium, scanning tunnelling microscopy
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0003-6951
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Konstanz
  • 被引频次:   96
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.3341176
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Regularly sized Ni nanoclusters (NCs) have been grown on a graphene Moireacute on Rh(111). Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we determine that initial growth of Ni at 150 K leads to preferential nucleation of monodispersed NCs at specific sites of the Moireacute superstructure. However, a defined long-range ordering of NCs with increasing coverage is not observed. Room temperature Ni deposition leads to the formation of flat triangular-shaped islands which are well-matched to the Moireacute registry.