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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 108, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.156803
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- National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
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We investigate cesium (Cs) adsorption on graphene formed on a 6H-SiC(0001) substrate by a combined scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory study. Individual Cs atoms adsorb preferentially at the rim region of the well-defined 6 X 6 substrate superstructure and on multilayer graphene. By finely controlling the graphene thickness and Cs coverages (1/3 ML and 1 ML), we here demonstrate two intriguing and well-ordered Cs superlattices on bilayer and multilayer graphene (< 6 layers). Statistical analysis of the Cs-Cs interatomic distance reveals a hitherto unobserved Cs-Cs long-range electrostatic potential caused by charge transfer from Cs to graphene, which couples with the inhomogeneous substrate potential to stabilize the observed Cs superlattices. The present study provides a new avenue to fabricate atomic and molecular superlattices for applications in high-density recording and data storage.
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