• 文献标题:   Determination of the geometric corrugation of graphene on SiC(0001) by grazing incidence fast atom diffraction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZUGARRAMURDI A, DEBIOSSAC M, LUNCAPOPA P, MAYNE AJ, MOMENI A, BORISOV AG, MU Z, RONCIN P, KHEMLICHE H
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  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0003-6951 EI 1077-3118
  • 通讯作者地址:   Aalto Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4914178
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

We present a grazing incidence fast atom diffraction ( GIFAD) study of monolayer graphene on 6H-SiC( 0001). This system shows a Moire-like 13 x 13 superlattice above the reconstructed carbon buffer layer. The averaging property of GIFAD results in electronic and geometric corrugations that are well decoupled; the graphene honeycomb corrugation is only observed with the incident beam parallel to the zigzag direction while the geometric corrugation arising from the superlattice is revealed along the armchair direction. Full-quantum calculations of the diffraction patterns show the very high GIFAD sensitivity to the amplitude of the surface corrugation. The best agreement between the calculated and measured diffraction intensities yields a corrugation height of 0.27 +/- 0.03 angstrom. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.