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Author: Lopes, Joao Marcelo J. × Author: Riechert, Henning × Type: Text × Publisher: London : Nature Publishing Group × WGL Institute: PDI ×

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    Coincident-site lattice matching during van der Waals epitaxy
    (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2015) Boschker, Jos E.; Galves, Lauren A.; Flissikowski, Timur; Lopes, Joao Marcelo J.; Kiemer, Alexandra K.; Riechert, Henning; Calarco, Raffaella
    Van der Waals (vdW) epitaxy is an attractive method for the fabrication of vdW heterostructures. Here Sb2Te3 films grown on three different kind of graphene substrates (monolayer epitaxial graphene, quasi freestanding bilayer graphene and the SiC (6√3 × 6√3)R30° buffer layer) are used to study the vdW epitaxy between two 2-dimensionally (2D) bonded materials. It is shown that the Sb2Te3 /graphene interface is stable and that coincidence lattices are formed between the epilayers and substrate that depend on the size of the surface unit cell. This demonstrates that there is a significant, although relatively weak, interfacial interaction between the two materials. Lattice matching is thus relevant for vdW epitaxy with two 2D bonded materials and a fundamental design parameter for vdW heterostructures.
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    Synthesis of quasi-free-standing bilayer graphene nanoribbons on SiC surfaces
    (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2015) Oliveira, Myriano H., Jr.; Lopes, Joao Marcelo J.; Schumann, Timo; Galves, Lauren A.; Ramsteiner, Manfred; Berlin, Katja; Trampert, Achim; Riechert, Henning
    Scaling graphene down to nanoribbons is a promising route for the implementation of this material into devices. Quantum confinement of charge carriers in such nanostructures, combined with the electric field-induced break of symmetry in AB-stacked bilayer graphene, leads to a band gap wider than that obtained solely by this symmetry breaking. Consequently, the possibility of fabricating AB-stacked bilayer graphene nanoribbons with high precision is very attractive for the purposes of applied and basic science. Here we show a method, which includes a straightforward air annealing, for the preparation of quasi-free-standing AB-bilayer nanoribbons with different widths on SiC(0001). Furthermore, the experiments reveal that the degree of disorder at the edges increases with the width, indicating that the narrower nanoribbons are more ordered in their edge termination. In general, the reported approach is a viable route towards the large-scale fabrication of bilayer graphene nanostructures with tailored dimensions and properties for specific applications.