Nanoscale probing of image-potential states and electron transfer doping in borophene polymorphs
arXiv:2011.09454 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04869
Abstract
Using field-emission resonance spectroscopy with an ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope, we reveal Stark-shifted image-potential states of the v_1/6 and v_1/5 borophene polymorphs on Ag(111) with long lifetimes, suggesting high borophene lattice and interface quality. These image-potential states allow the local work function and interfacial charge transfer of borophene to be probed at the nanoscale and test the widely employed self-doping model of borophene. Supported by apparent barrier height measurements and density functional theory calculations, electron transfer doping occurs for both borophene phases from the Ag(111) substrate. In contradiction with the self-doping model, a higher electron transfer doping level occurs for denser v_1/6 borophene compared to v_1/5 borophene, thus revealing the importance of substrate effects on borophene electron transfer.
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