• 文献标题:   Making angle-resolved photoemission measurements on corrugated monolayer crystals: Suspended exfoliated single-crystal graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KNOX KR, LOCATELLI A, YILMAZ MB, CVETKO D, MENTES TO, NINO MA, KIM P, MORGANTE A, OSGOOD RM
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Columbia Univ
  • 被引频次:   33
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.115401
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Free-standing exfoliated monolayer graphene is an ultrathin flexible membrane, which exhibits out-of-plane deformation or corrugation. In this paper, a technique is described to measure the band structure of such free-standing graphene by angle-resolved photoemission. Our results show that photoelectron coherence is limited by the crystal corrugation. However, by combining surface morphology measurements of the graphene roughness with angle-resolved photoemission, energy-dependent quasiparticle lifetime and band-structure measurements can be extracted. Our measurements rely on our development of an analytical formulation for relating the crystal corrugation to the photoemission linewidth. Our angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements show that, despite significant deviation from planarity of the crystal, the electronic structure of exfoliated suspended graphene is nearly that of ideal, undoped graphene; we measure the Dirac point to be within 25 meV of E-F. Further, we show that suspended graphene behaves as a marginal Fermi liquid, with a quasiparticle lifetime that scales as (E - E-F)(-1); comparison with other graphene and graphite data is discussed.