Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-07-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
13 pages, 3 figures plus supplemental information
Scientific paper
Strain engineering of graphene through interaction with a patterned substrate offers the possibility of tailoring its electronic properties, but will require detailed understanding of how graphene's morphology is determined by the underlying substrate. However, previous experimental reports have drawn conflicting conclusions about the structure of graphene on SiO2. Here we show that high-resolution non-contact atomic force microscopy of SiO2 reveals roughness at the few-nm length scale unresolved in previous measurements, and scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene on SiO2 shows it to be slightly smoother than the supporting SiO2 substrate. Quantitative analysis of the competition between bending rigidity of the graphene and adhesion to the substrate explains the observed roughness of monolayer graphene on SiO2 as extrinsic, and provides a natural, intuitive description in terms of highly conformal adhesion. The analysis indicates that graphene adopts the conformation of the underlying substrate down to the smallest features with nearly 99% fidelity.
Burson Kristen M.
Chen Jianhao
Cullen William G.
Fuhrer Michael. S.
Jang Chaun
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