Nano-Engineering Defect Structures on Graphene

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2007-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/0712.1035v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. v. 100, p. 175503 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.175503

We present a new way of nano-engineering graphene using defect domains. These regions have ring structures that depart from the usual honeycomb lattice, though each carbon atom still has three nearest neighbors. A set of stable domain structures is identified using density functional theory (DFT), including blisters, ridges, ribbons, and metacrystals. All such structures are made solely out of carbon; the smallest encompasses just 16 atoms. Blisters, ridges and metacrystals rise up out of the sheet, while ribbons remain flat. In the vicinity of vacancies, the reaction barriers to formation are sufficiently low that such defects could be synthesized through the thermally activated restructuring of coalesced adatoms.

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