1. Exploring interlayer Dirac cone coupling in commensurately rotated few-layer graphene on SiC(000-1)
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Feng Wang, Vitaliy Feyer, Olivier Renault, Julien E. Rault, Claus M. Schneider, Nicholas Barrett, Edward H. Conrad, and Claire Mathieu
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Diffraction ,Materials science ,Condensed matter physics ,Graphene ,Superlattice ,Dirac (software) ,02 engineering and technology ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Rotation ,01 natural sciences ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,law.invention ,Brillouin zone ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Reciprocal lattice ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Materials Chemistry ,010306 general physics ,0210 nano-technology ,Electronic band structure - Abstract
We investigate electronic band-structure images in reciprocal space of few-layer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC(000-1). In addition to the observation of commensurate rotation angles of the graphene layers, the k-space images recorded near the Fermi edge highlight structures originating from diffraction of the Dirac cones due to the relative rotation of adjacent layers. The 21.9° and 27° rotation angles between two sheets of graphene are responsible for a periodic pattern that can be described with a superlattice unit cells. The superlattice generates replicas of Dirac cones with smaller wave vectors, because of a Brillouin zone folding. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- 2014
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