中国物理B ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 48102-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abe22c

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  • 收稿日期:2020-12-24 修回日期:2021-01-19 接受日期:2021-02-02 出版日期:2021-03-16 发布日期:2021-03-16

Intercalation of germanium oxide beneath large-area and high-quality epitaxial graphene on Ir(111) substrate

Xueyan Wang(王雪艳)1,†, Hui Guo(郭辉)1,†, Jianchen Lu(卢建臣)1, Hongliang Lu(路红亮)1,2,‡, Xiao Lin(林晓)1,2, Chengmin Shen(申承民)1,2, Lihong Bao(鲍丽宏)1,2,3, Shixuan Du(杜世萱)1,2,3, and Hong-Jun Gao(高鸿钧)1,2,3   

  1. 1 Institute of Physics and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; 2 CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; 3 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
  • Received:2020-12-24 Revised:2021-01-19 Accepted:2021-02-02 Online:2021-03-16 Published:2021-03-16
  • Contact: †These authors contributed equally to this work. ‡Corresponding author. E-mail: luhl@ucas.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Key Research & Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2019YFA0308500, 2016YFA0202300, and 2018YFA0305800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61888102, 61925111, and 21661132006), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB30000000 and XDB28000000), and the CAS Key Laboratory of Vacuum Physics.

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Abstract: Epitaxial growth on transition metal surfaces is an effective way to prepare large-area and high-quality graphene. However, the strong interaction between graphene and metal substrates suppresses the intrinsic excellent properties of graphene and the conductive metal substrates also hinder its applications in electronics. Here we demonstrate the decoupling of graphene from metal substrates by germanium oxide intercalation. Germanium is firstly intercalated into the interface between graphene and Ir(111) substrate. Then oxygen is subsequently intercalated, leading to the formation of a GeOx layer, which is confirmed by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Low-energy electron diffraction and scanning tunneling microscopy studies show intact carbon lattice of graphene after the GeOx intercalation. Raman characterizations reveal that the intercalated layer effectively decouples graphene from the Ir substrate. The transport measurements demonstrate that the GeOx layer can act as a tunneling barrier in the fabricated large-area high-quality vertical graphene/GeOx/Ir heterostructure.

Key words: graphene, intercalation, heterostructure, tunneling barrier

中图分类号:  (Graphene)

  • 81.05.ue
71.20.Tx (Fullerenes and related materials; intercalation compounds) 79.60.Jv (Interfaces; heterostructures; nanostructures) 73.43.Jn (Tunneling)