Graphene on Rh(111): Combined DFT, STM, and NC-AFM Studies

2014/01/01 by Petar Stojanov, P. Stojanov, Elena Voloshina +5
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic force microscopy #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Computational chemistry #Density functional theory #Electronic structure #Graphene #Graphene research and applications #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum tunnelling #Scanning tunneling microscope #Scanning tunneling spectroscopy #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2013.11.040

published as Procedia Engineering 93, 8 (2014) · MRS Singapore - ICMAT Symposia Proceedings

openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · arxiv created 2015/02/03 · arxiv updated 2015/02/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The simultaneous combination of scanning probe methods (tunneling and force microscopies, STM and AFM) is a unique way to get information about crystallographic and electronic structure of the studied surface. Here we apply these methods accompanied by the state- of-the-art density functional theory (DFT) calculations to shed a light on the structure and electronic properties of the strongly-corrugated graphene/Rh(111) system. The atomically-resolved images are obtained for both STM and AFM modes and compared with the DFT results showing good agreement between theory and experiment.

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