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Strong metal adatom-substrate interaction of Gd and Fe with graphene.

Ames Lab-USDOE, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (impact factor: 2.55). 02/2011; 23(4):045005. DOI:10.1088/0953-8984/23/4/045005 pp.045005
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ABSTRACT Graphene is a unique 2D system of confined electrons with an unusual electronic structure of two inverted Dirac cones touching at a single point, with high electron mobility and promising microelectronics applications. The clean system has been studied extensively, but metal adsorption studies in controlled experiments have been limited; such experiments are important to grow uniform metallic films, metal contacts, carrier doping, etc. Two non-free-electron-like metals (rare earth Gd and transition metal Fe) were grown epitaxially on graphene as a function of temperature T and coverage θ. By measuring the nucleated island density and its variation with growth conditions, information about the metal-graphene interaction (terrace diffusion, detachment energy) is extracted. The nucleated island densities at room temperature (RT) are stable and do not coarsen, at least up to 400 °C, which shows an unusually strong metal-graphene bond; most likely it is a result of C atom rebonding from the pure graphene sp(2) C-C configuration to one of lower energy.

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Keywords

C atom rebonding
 
clean system
 
coarsen
 
electron mobility
 
electrons
 
inverted Dirac cones
 
metal adsorption studies
 
metal-graphene interaction
 
non-free-electron-like metals
 
nucleated island densities
 
nucleated island density
 
promising microelectronics applications
 
room temperature
 
strong metal-graphene bond
 
temperature T
 
terrace diffusion
 
transition metal Fe
 
uniform metallic films
 
unique 2D system
 
unusual electronic structure
 

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