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Atomic-Scale Characterization And Manipulation Of Freestanding Graphene Using Adapted Capabilities Of A Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Steven Barber
Atomic-Scale Characterization And Manipulation Of Freestanding Graphene Using Adapted Capabilities Of A Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Steven Barber
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Graphene was the first two-dimensional material ever discovered, and it exhibits many unusual phenomena important to both pure and applied physics. To ensure the purest electronic structure, or to study graphene's elastic properties, it is often suspended over holes or trenches in a substrate. The aim of the research presented in this dissertation was to develop methods for characterizing and manipulating freestanding graphene on the atomic scale using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Conventional microscopy and spectroscopy techniques must be carefully reconsidered to account for movement of the extremely flexible sample.
First, the acquisition of atomic-scale images of freestanding graphene …