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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2012

Electronic and structural characterization of divacancies in irradiated graphene

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We provide a thorough study of a carbon divacancy, a point defect expected to have a large impact on the properties of graphene. Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of irradiated graphene on different substrates enabled us to identify a common twofold symmetry point defect. Our first-principles calculations reveal that the structure of this type of defect accommodates two adjacent missing atoms in a rearranged atomic network formed by two pentagons and one octagon, with no dangling bonds. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements on divacancies generated in nearly ideal graphene show an electronic spectrum dominated by an empty-states resonance, which is ascribed to a nearly flat, spin-degenerated band of π -electron nature. While the calculated electronic structure rules out the formation of a magnetic moment around the divacancy, the generation of an electronic resonance near the Fermi level reveals divacancies as key point defects for tuning electron transport properties in graphene systems.
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hal-00725557 , version 1 (27-08-2012)

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Miguel Moreno Ugeda, Ivan Brihuega, Fanny Hiebel, Pierre Mallet, Jean-Yves Veuillen, et al.. Electronic and structural characterization of divacancies in irradiated graphene. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2012, 85 (12), pp.121402. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.85.121402⟩. ⟨hal-00725557⟩

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