Tresca, C., Verbitskiy, N.I., Fedorov, A., Gruneis, A. and Profeta, G. (2017). Alloyed surfaces: new substrates for graphene growth. Surface Science, 665. pp. 28-31. Elsevier. ISSN 0039-6028

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We report a systematic ab-initio density functional theory investigation of Ni(111) surface alloyed with elements of group IV (Si, Ge and Sn), demonstrating the possibility to use it to grow high quality graphene. Ni(111) surface represents an ideal substrate for graphene, due to its catalytic properties and perfect matching with the graphene lattice constant. However, Dirac bands of graphene growth on Ni(111) are completely destroyed due to the strong hybridization between carbon pz and Ni d orbitals. Group IV atoms, namely Si, Ge and Sn, once deposited on Ni(111) surface, form an ordered alloyed surface with √ 3 × √ 3-R30◦ reconstruction. We demonstrate that, at variance with the pure Ni(111) surface, alloyed surfaces effectively decouple graphene from the substrate, resulting unstrained due to the nearly perfect lattice matching and preserves linear Dirac bands without the strong hybridization with Ni d states. The proposed surfaces can be prepared before graphene growth without resorting on post-growth processes which necessarily alter the electronic and structural properties of graphene.

Item Type: Journal Article
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CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Tresca, C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Verbitskiy, N.I.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Fedorov, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Gruneis, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Profeta, G.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-81569
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2017.08.002
Journal or Publication Title: Surface Science
Volume: 665
Page Range: pp. 28-31
Date: 3 August 2017
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0039-6028
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute of Physics II
Subjects: Natural sciences and mathematics
Physics
Funders: ERC grant no. 648589 ‘SUPER-2D’
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8156

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