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Structural analysis of multilayer graphene via atomic moiré interferometry

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Author(s)

David L. Miller, Kevin Kubista, Gregory M. Rutter, Ming Ruan, Walt A. de Heer, Phillip First, Joseph A. Stroscio

Abstract

The rotation of stacked honeycomb lattices produces an observable moir e pattern in the topography of scanning tunneling microscopy images, which have long been observed in highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite due to rotation of the surface layer relative to layers below. Here, we observe the combined e ect of three-layer moir e patterns in graphene grown on SiC(000 1). Small angle rotations between the first and third layer are shown to produce a double-moir e pattern, resulting from the beat frequencies of interfering moir e patterns of the first three layers. Additionally, unconventional patterns are also observed due to relative lattice strain between the layers. We model the moir e patterns as a beating of the mismatched reciprocal lattice vectors and show how moir e patterns can be used to determine the relative strain between lattices.
Citation
Physical Review B
Volume
81

Keywords

graphene, silicon carbide, scanning tunneling microscopy

Citation

Miller, D. , Kubista, K. , Rutter, G. , Ruan, M. , de Heer, W. , First, P. and Stroscio, J. (2010), Structural analysis of multilayer graphene via atomic moiré interferometry, Physical Review B, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904601 (Accessed March 19, 2024)
Created March 23, 2010, Updated October 12, 2021