Journal
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 93, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3033202
Keywords
adsorption; carbon; density functional theory; doping; nanostructured materials; silicon compounds; water
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- SFB (Germany) [668]
- FOM (The Netherlands)
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We investigate the electronic properties of graphene upon water adsorption and study the influence of the SiO2 substrate in this context using density functional calculations. Perfect suspended graphene is rather insensitive to H2O adsorbates, as doping requires highly oriented H2O clusters. For graphene on a defective SiO2 substrate, we find a strongly different behavior: H2O adsorbates can shift the substrate's impurity bands and change their hybridization with the graphene bands. In this way, H2O can lead to doping of graphene for much lower adsorbate concentrations than for free hanged graphene. The effect depends strongly on the microscopic substrate properties.
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