Wrinkles of graphene on Ir(111): Macroscopic network ordering and internal multi-lobed structure

Petrovic, Marin; Sadowski, Jerzy T.; Siber, Antonio; Kralj, Marko

doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2015.07.059

Title: Wrinkles of graphene on Ir(111): Macroscopic network ordering and internal multi-lobed structure

Journal Article · Fri Jul 17 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Carbon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2015.07.059 · OSTI ID:1213371

Petrovic, Marin ^[1]; Sadowski, Jerzy T. ^[2]; Siber, Antonio ^[1]; Kralj, Marko ^[1]

Institut za fiziku, Zagreb (Croatia)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

The large-scale production of graphene monolayer greatly relies on epitaxial samples which often display stress-relaxation features in the form of wrinkles. Wrinkles of graphene on Ir(111) are found to exhibit a fairly well ordered interconnecting network which is characterized by low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM). The high degree of quasi-hexagonal network arrangement for the graphene aligned to the underlying substrate can be well described as a (non-Poissonian) Voronoi partition of a plane. The results obtained strongly suggest that the wrinkle network is frustrated at low temperatures, retaining the order inherited from elevated temperatures when the wrinkles interconnect in junctions which most often join three wrinkles. Such frustration favors the formation of multi-lobed wrinkles which are found in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements. The existence of multiple lobes is explained within a model accounting for the interplay of the van der Waals attraction between graphene and iridium and bending energy of the wrinkle. The presented study provides new insights into wrinkling of epitaxial graphene and can be exploited to further expedite its application.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

OSTI ID:: 1213371

Report Number(s):: BNL--108220-2015-JA; KC0403020

Journal Information:: Carbon, Journal Name: Carbon Journal Issue: C Vol. 94; ISSN 0008-6223

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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