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American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, 6(4), p. 3175-3180, 2010

DOI: 10.1021/nn100705n

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Raman Study on the G Mode of Graphene for Determination of Edge Orientation

Journal article published in 2010 by Chunxiao Cong, Ting Yu ORCID, Haomin Wang
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Abstract

We report a confocal Raman study on edges of single-layer graphene. It is found that edge orientations could be identified by G mode in addition to D mode. We observe that G mode at the edges of single-layer graphene exhibits polar behaviors and different edges such as zigzag- or armchair-dominated responses differently than the polarization of the incident laser. Moreover, G mode shows stiffening at zigzag-dominated edges, while it is softened at armchair-dominated ones. Our observations are in good agreement with recent theory (Sasaki, K. et al. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2010, 79, 044603) and could be well-explained by the unique properties of pseudospin at graphene edges, which lead to asymmetry of Raman active modes and non-adiabatic processes (Kohn Anomaly) at different types of edges. This work could be useful for further study on the properties of the graphene edge and development of graphene-based devices.