Journal Articles Scientific Reports Year : 2014

Flower-shaped domains and wrinkles in trilayer epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide

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Trilayer graphene is of particular interest to the 2D materials community because of its unique tunable electronic structure. However, to date, there is a lack of fundamental understanding of the properties of epitaxial trilayer graphene on silicon carbide. Here, following successful synthesis of large-area uniform trilayer graphene, atomic force microscopy (AFM) showed that the trilayer graphene on 6H-SiC(0001) was uniform over a large scale. Additionally, distinct defects, identified as flower-shaped domains and isolated wrinkle structures, were observed randomly on the surface using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS). These carbon nanostructures formed during growth, has different structural and electronic properties when compared with the adjacent flat regions of the graphene. Finally, using low temperature STM/STS at 4K, we found that the isolated wrinkles showed an irreversible rotational motion between two 60° configurations at different densities of states
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cea-01410559 , version 1 (06-01-2025)

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B. Lalmi, J.C. Girard, E. Pallecchi, M. Silly, C. David, et al.. Flower-shaped domains and wrinkles in trilayer epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide. Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, pp.4066. ⟨10.1038/srep04066⟩. ⟨cea-01410559⟩
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