Measurement of the Low-Energy Electron Inelastic Mean Free Path in Monolayer Graphene

Da, Bo; Sun, Yang; Hou, Zhufeng; Liu, Jiangwei; Cuong, Nguyen Thanh; Tsukagoshi, Kazuhito; Yoshikawa, Hideki; Tanuma, Shigeo; Hu, Jin; Gao, Zhaoshun; Ding, Zejun

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.13.044055

Title: Measurement of the Low-Energy Electron Inelastic Mean Free Path in Monolayer Graphene

Journal Article · Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review Applied

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.13.044055· OSTI ID:1803850

^[1]; Sun, Yang ^[2];

^[1]; Liu, Jiangwei ^[1];

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^[1]; Yoshikawa, Hideki ^[1]; Tanuma, Shigeo ^[1]; Hu, Jin ^[3]; Gao, Zhaoshun ^[4]; Ding, Zejun ^[5]

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan)
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)

Measuring the electron-transport properties of substrate-supported nanomaterials with the traditional two-point comparison method is difficult at electron energies below 50 eV, where core-level signals are too feeble to be detected against the strong secondary-electron background. Herein, a data-driven spectral analysis technique is used to study the low-energy electron-transport properties of substrate-supported target nanomaterials, while eliminating the influence of the substrate signal. Applying this technique, the electron-transport properties of the effective attenuation length and the inelastic mean free path (IMFP) can be determined with extremely high efficiency over the entire measured energy range of 6–600 eV. Further, these results show excellent agreement with other experimental and theoretical results. In this work, significant differences are observed between monolayer graphene and the bulk graphite IMFP, which illustrates the importance of the nanometer effect in the electron-transport properties of the material. Furthermore, this technique is readily applicable to any ultrathin material that can be transferred onto a polycrystalline gold substrate.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Education of China

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019467; 18K18868; 11574289

OSTI ID:: 1803850

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1615556

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 13, Issue 4; ISSN 2331-7019

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Language:: English

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