Quasiparticle scattering off phase boundaries in epitaxial graphene

Details Quasiparticle scattering off phase boundaries in epitaxial graphene Quasiparticle scattering off phase boundaries in epitaxial graphene

2012-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3477v1

Nanotechnology 23 (2012) 055706

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1088/0957-4484/23/5/055706

We investigate the electronic structure of terraces of single layer graphene (SLG) by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) on samples grown by thermal decomposition of 6H-SiC(0001) crystals in ultra-high vacuum. We focus on the perturbations of the local density of states (LDOS) in the vicinity of edges of SLG terraces. Armchair edges are found to favour intervalley quasiparticle scattering, leading to the (\surd3\times\surd3)R30{\deg} LDOS superstructure already reported for graphite edges and more recently for SLG on SiC(0001). Using Fourier transform of LDOS images, we demonstrate that the intrinsic doping of SLG is responsible for a LDOS pattern at the Fermi energy which is more complex than for neutral graphene or graphite, since it combines local (\surd3\times\surd3)R30{\deg} superstructure and long range beating modulation. Although these features were already reported by Yang et al. Nanoletters 10, 943 (2010), we propose here an alternative interpretation based on simple arguments classically used to describe standing wave patterns in standard two-dimensional systems. Finally, we discuss the absence of intervalley scattering off other typical boundaries: zig-zag edges and SLG/bilayer graphene junctions.

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