Structure of few-layer epitaxial graphene on 6H -SiC(0001) at atomic resolution

Xiaojun Weng; Joshua Alexander Robinson; Kathleen Trumbull; Randall Cavalero; Mark Andrew Fanton; David W. Snyder

doi:10.1063/1.3517505

Structure of few-layer epitaxial graphene on 6H -SiC(0001) at atomic resolution

Xiaojun Weng, Joshua Alexander Robinson, Kathleen Trumbull, Randall Cavalero, Mark Andrew Fanton, David W. Snyder

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Abstract

Using directly interpretable atomic-resolution cross-sectional scanning transmission electron microscopy, we have investigated the structure of few-layer epitaxial graphene (EG) on 6H -SiC(0001). We show that the buried interface layer possesses a lower average areal density of carbon atoms than graphene, indicating that it is not a graphenelike sheet with the 63×63R30° structure. The EG interlayer spacings are found to be considerably larger than that of the bulk graphite and the surface of the SiC(0001) substrate, often treated as relaxed, is found to be strained. Discontinuity of the graphene layers above the SiC surface steps is observed, in contradiction with the commonly believed continuous coverage.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	201905
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	97
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3517505
State	Published - Nov 15 2010

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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