Electronic structure of single-crystalline graphene grown on Cu/Ni (111) alloy film

Zhang Xue-Fu^{1, 2, 4}, Liu Zhong-Hao^{1, 4, †}, Liu Wan-Ling³, Lu Xiang-Le¹, Li Zhuo-Jun^{1, 4}, Yu Qing-Kai^{1, 4}, Shen Da-Wei^{1, 4, ‡}, Xie Xiao-Ming^{1, 2, 3, 4}

Characterization of the Cu/Ni (111) film. (a) SEM image of the morphology of Cu/Ni (111) thin film. (b) EBSD map of Cu/Ni (111) thin film. The inset shows the pole figure of Cu/Ni (111) thin film. (c) XRD pattern of Cu/Ni (111) film, showing the well-defined (111)-orientation out-of-plane. (d) High-resolution XRD azimuthal off-axis scan of Cu/Ni (111) in-plane orientation.