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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 26(107), p. 263101, 2015

DOI: 10.1063/1.4938466

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Stacking-dependent electronic property of trilayer graphene epitaxially grown on Ru(0001)

Journal article published in 2015 by Yande Que ORCID, Wende Xiao ORCID, Hui Chen, Dongfei Wang, Shixuan Du, Hong-Jun Gao
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Abstract

The growth, atomic structure, and electronic property of trilayer graphene (TLG) on Ru(0001) were studied by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in combined with tight-binding approximation (TBA) calculations. TLG on Ru(0001) shows a flat surface with a hexagonal lattice due to the screening effect of the bottom two layers and the AB-stacking in the top two layers. The coexistence of AA- and AB-stacking in the bottom two layers leads to three different stacking orders of TLG, namely, ABA-, ABC-, and ABB-stacking. STS measurements combined with TBA calculations reveal that the density of states of TLG with ABC- and ABB-stacking is characterized by one and two sharp peaks near to the Fermi level, respectively, in contrast to the V-shaped feature of TLG with ABA-stacking. Our work demonstrates that TLG on Ru(0001) might be an ideal platform for exploring stacking-dependent electronic properties of graphene. ; Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures