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Rotated domain network in graphene on cubic-SiC(001)

Chaika, Alexander N. ; Molodtsova, Olga V. ; Zakharov, Alexei LU ; Marchenko, Dmitry ; Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime ; Varykhalov, Andrei ; Babenkov, Sergey V. ; Portail, Marc ; Zielinski, Marcin and Murphy, Barry E. , et al. (2014) In Nanotechnology 25(13).
Abstract
The atomic structure of the cubic-SiC(001) surface during ultra-high vacuum graphene synthesis has been studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction. Atomically resolved STM studies prove the synthesis of a uniform, millimeter-scale graphene overlayer consisting of nanodomains rotated by +/- 13.5 degrees relative to the < 110 >-directed boundaries. The preferential directions of the domain boundaries coincide with the directions of carbon atomic chains on the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) reconstruction, fabricated prior to graphene synthesis. The presented data show the correlation between the atomic structures of the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) surface and the graphene/SiC(001) rotated domain network and pave the... (More)
The atomic structure of the cubic-SiC(001) surface during ultra-high vacuum graphene synthesis has been studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction. Atomically resolved STM studies prove the synthesis of a uniform, millimeter-scale graphene overlayer consisting of nanodomains rotated by +/- 13.5 degrees relative to the < 110 >-directed boundaries. The preferential directions of the domain boundaries coincide with the directions of carbon atomic chains on the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) reconstruction, fabricated prior to graphene synthesis. The presented data show the correlation between the atomic structures of the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) surface and the graphene/SiC(001) rotated domain network and pave the way for optimizing large-area graphene synthesis on low-cost cubic-SiC(001)/Si(001) wafers. (Less)
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graphene, cubic-SiC(001), nanoribbons, synthesis, STM imaging
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Nanotechnology
volume
25
issue
13
article number
135605
publisher
IOP Publishing
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  • wos:000332858700017
  • scopus:84896800772
  • pmid:24594516
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0957-4484
DOI
10.1088/0957-4484/25/13/135605
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English
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  abstract     = {{The atomic structure of the cubic-SiC(001) surface during ultra-high vacuum graphene synthesis has been studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction. Atomically resolved STM studies prove the synthesis of a uniform, millimeter-scale graphene overlayer consisting of nanodomains rotated by +/- 13.5 degrees relative to the &lt; 110 &gt;-directed boundaries. The preferential directions of the domain boundaries coincide with the directions of carbon atomic chains on the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) reconstruction, fabricated prior to graphene synthesis. The presented data show the correlation between the atomic structures of the SiC(001)-c(2 x 2) surface and the graphene/SiC(001) rotated domain network and pave the way for optimizing large-area graphene synthesis on low-cost cubic-SiC(001)/Si(001) wafers.}},
  author       = {{Chaika, Alexander N. and Molodtsova, Olga V. and Zakharov, Alexei and Marchenko, Dmitry and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Varykhalov, Andrei and Babenkov, Sergey V. and Portail, Marc and Zielinski, Marcin and Murphy, Barry E. and Krasnikov, Sergey A. and Luebben, Olaf and Shvets, Igor V. and Aristov, Victor Y.}},
  issn         = {{0957-4484}},
  keywords     = {{graphene; cubic-SiC(001); nanoribbons; synthesis; STM imaging}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{13}},
  publisher    = {{IOP Publishing}},
  series       = {{Nanotechnology}},
  title        = {{Rotated domain network in graphene on cubic-SiC(001)}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/25/13/135605}},
  doi          = {{10.1088/0957-4484/25/13/135605}},
  volume       = {{25}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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