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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 107, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928930
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-06-10120, N00014-09-0180]
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) through the Army Research Office (ARO)
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We employ room-temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy and ab-initio calculations to study graphene flakes that were adsorbed onto the Si(111)-7 x 7 surface. The characteristic 7 x 7 reconstruction of this semiconductor substrate can be resolved through graphene at all scanning biases, thus indicating that the atomistic configuration of the semiconducting substrate is not altered upon graphene adsorption. Large-scale ab-initio calculations confirm these experimental observations and point to a lack of chemical bonding among interfacial graphene and silicon atoms. Our work provides insight into atomic-scale chemistry between graphene and highly reactive surfaces, directing future passivation and chemical interaction work in graphene-based heterostructures. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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