Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of inhomogeneous electronic structure in monolayer and bilayer graphene on SiC
arXiv:0706.3764 · doi:10.1063/1.2771084
Abstract
We present a scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) study of the local electronic structure of single and bilayer graphene grown epitaxially on a SiC(0001) surface. Low voltage topographic images reveal fine, atomic-scale carbon networks, whereas higher bias images are dominated by emergent spatially inhomogeneous large-scale structure similar to a carbon-rich reconstruction of SiC(0001). STS spectroscopy shows a ~100meV gap-like feature around zero bias for both monolayer and bilayer graphene/SiC, as well as significant spatial inhomogeneity in electronic structure above the gap edge. Nanoscale structure at the SiC/graphene interface is seen to correlate with observed electronic spatial inhomogeneity. These results are important for potential devices involving electronic transport or tunneling in graphene/SiC.
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