Band gap engineering by Bi intercalation of graphene on Ir(111)

Abstract

We report on the structural and electronic properties of a single bismuth layer intercalated underneath a graphene layer grown on an Ir(111) single crystal. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) reveals a hexagonal surface structure and a dislocation network upon Bi intercalation, which we attribute to a $\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3}R30°$ Bi structure on the underlying Ir(111) surface. Ab-initio calculations show that this Bi structure is the most energetically favorable, and also illustrate that STM measurements are most sensitive to C atoms in close proximity to intercalated Bi atoms. Additionally, Bi intercalation induces a band gap ($E_g=0.42$eV) at the Dirac point of graphene and an overall n-doping ($\sim 0.39$eV), as seen in angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We attribute the emergence of the band gap to the dislocation network which forms favorably along certain parts of the moiré structure induced by the graphene/Ir(111) interface.

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