Lattice-Matched Epitaxial Graphene Grown on Boron Nitride

Davies, Andrew; Albar, J.D.; Summerfield, Alex; Thomas, James C.; Cheng, Tin S.; Korolkov, Vladimir V.; Stapleton, Emily; Wrigley, James; Goodey, Nathan L.; Mellor, Christopher J.; Khlobystov, Andrei N.; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Foxon, C.T.; Eaves, Laurence; Novikov, Sergei V.; Beton, Peter H.

Abstract

Lattice-matched graphene on hexagonal boron nitride is expected to lead to the formation of a band-gap but requires the formation of highly strained material and has not hitherto been realised. We demonstrate that aligned, lattice-matched graphene can be grown by molecular beam epitaxy using substrate temperatures in the range 1600-1710 °C and co-exists with a topologically-modified moiré pattern, and with regions of strained graphene which have giant moiré periods up to ~80 nm. Raman spectra reveal narrow red-shifted peaks due to isotropic strain, while the giant moiré patterns result in complex splitting of Raman peaks due to strain variations across the moiré unit cell. The lattice-matched graphene has a lower conductance than both the Frenkel-Kontorova-type domain walls, and also the topological defects where they terminate. We relate these results to theoretical models of band-gap formation in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures.

Citation

Davies, A., Albar, J., Summerfield, A., Thomas, J. C., Cheng, T. S., Korolkov, V. V., Stapleton, E., Wrigley, J., Goodey, N. L., Mellor, C. J., Khlobystov, A. N., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Foxon, C., Eaves, L., Novikov, S. V., & Beton, P. H. (2018). Lattice-Matched Epitaxial Graphene Grown on Boron Nitride. Nano Letters, 18(1), 498-504. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04453

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 6, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Dec 12, 2017
• Publication Date: Jan 10, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 14, 2017
• Journal: Nano Letters
• Print ISSN: 1530-6984
• Electronic ISSN: 1530-6992
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 498-504
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04453
• Keywords: graphene; boron nitride; growth; strain; band-gap; epitaxy
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/904183
• Publisher URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04453
• Contract Date: Dec 14, 2017