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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2007

Electron states of mono- and bilayer graphene on SiC probed by STM

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We present a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) study of a gently-graphitized 6H-SiC(0001) surface in ultra high vacuum. From an analysis of atomic scale images, we identify two different kinds of terraces, which we unambiguously attribute to mono- and bilayer graphene capping a C-rich interface. At low temperature, both terraces show $(\sqrt{3}\times \sqrt{3})$ quantum interferences generated by static impurities. Such interferences are a fingerprint of $\pi$-like states close to the Fermi level. We conclude that the metallic states of the first graphene layer are almost unperturbed by the underlying interface, in agreement with recent photoemission experiments (A. Bostwick et al., Nature Physics 3, 36 (2007))
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hal-00131838 , version 1 (19-02-2007)

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Pierre Mallet, François Varchon, Cécile Naud, Laurence Magaud, Claire Berger, et al.. Electron states of mono- and bilayer graphene on SiC probed by STM. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2007, 76 (4), pp.041403. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.76.041403⟩. ⟨hal-00131838⟩

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