1. Tuning the Electronic Response of Metallic Graphene by Potassium Doping
- Author
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Dario Marchiani, Andrea Tonelli, Carlo Mariani, Riccardo Frisenda, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Francesco Saverio Magnani, Roberto Biagi, Valentina De Renzi, and Maria Grazia Betti
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Mechanical Engineering ,General Materials Science ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics - Abstract
Electron doping of graphene has been extensively studied on graphene-supported surfaces, where the metallicity is influenced by the substrate. Herewith we propose potassium adsorption on free-standing nanoporous graphene, thus eluding any effect due to the substrate. We monitor the electron migration in the π* downward-shifted conduction band. In this rigid band shift, we correlate the spectral density of the π* state in the upper Dirac cone with the associated plasmon, blue-shifted with increasing K dose, as deduced by electron energy loss spectroscopy. These results are confirmed by the Dirac plasmon activated by the C 1s emitted electrons, thanks to spatially resolved photoemission. This crosscheck constitutes a reference on the correlation between the electronic π* states in the conduction band and the Dirac plasmon evolution upon in situ electron doping of fully free-standing graphene.
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- 2022