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cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 28 cited

Origins of GaN(0 0 0 1) surface reconstructions

S. Vezian, F. Semond, J. Massies +3

The reconstructions of the Ga polarity GaN(0 0 0 1) surface with and without trace amounts of arsenic and prepared by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) have been studied with in situ re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 58 cited

Thermal mirror buckling in freestanding graphene locally controlled by scanning tunneling microscopy

M. Neek-Amal, P. Xu, J. K. Schoelz +5

Knowledge of and control over the curvature of ripples in freestanding graphene are desirable for fabricating and designing flexible electronic devices, and recent progress in thes…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 100 cited

Unusual ultralow frequency fluctuations in freestanding graphene

P. Xu, M. Neek-Amal, S. D. Barber +5

Intrinsic ripples in freestanding graphene have been exceedingly difficult to study. Individual ripple geometry was recently imaged using scanning tunneling microscopy, but these m…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 1 cited

Self-Organized Platinum Nanoparticles on Freestanding Graphene

Peng Xu, Lifeng Dong, Mehdi Neek-Amal +8

Freestanding graphene membranes were successfully functionalized with platinum nanoparticles (Pt NPs). High-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed a homogeneous distr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 28 cited

Simulated scanning tunneling microscopy images of few-layer-phosphorus capped by graphene and hexagonal boron nitride monolayers

Pablo Rivero, Cedric M. Horvath, Zhen Zhu +3

Elemental phosphorous is believed to have several stable allotropes that are energetically nearly degenerate, but chemically reactive. To prevent chemical degradation under ambient…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 100 cited

Stability and properties of high-buckled two-dimensional tin and lead

Pablo Rivero, Jia-An Yan, Victor M. Garcia-Suarez +2

In realizing practical non-trivial topological electronic phases stable structures need to be determined first. Tin and lead do stabilize an optimal two-dimensional high-buckled ph…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 15 cited

Membrane amplitude and triaxial stress in twisted bilayer graphene deciphered using first-principles directed elasticity theory and scanning tunneling microscopy

M. Neek-Amal, P. Xu, D. Qi +7

Twisted graphene layers produce a moiré pattern (MP) structure with a predetermined wavelength for given twist angle. However, predicting the membrane corrugation amplitude for any…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 142 cited

Thermoplasmonics: Quantifying plasmonic heating in single nanowires

Joseph B. Herzog, Mark W. Knight, Douglas Natelson

Plasmonic absorption of light can lead to significant local heating in metallic nanostructures, an effect that defines the sub-field of thermoplasmonics and has been leveraged in d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 57 cited

Graphene's morphology and electronic properties from discrete differential geometry

Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan, Zhengfei Wang, Hamed Pour Imani +2

The geometry of two-dimensional crystalline membranes dictates their mechanical, electronic and chemical properties. The local geometry of a surface is determined from the two inva…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 28 cited

Quantitative Chemistry and the Discrete Geometry of Conformal Atom-Thin Crystals

Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan, Mehrshad Mehboudi, Edmund O. Harriss +2

When flat or on a firm mechanical substrate, the atomic composition and atomistic structure of two-dimensional crystals dictate their chemical, electronic, optical, and mechanical…