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V Encuentro Sud Americano <strong>de</strong> Colisiones Inelásticas en la Materia<br />

Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy on Graphene<br />

V. <strong>de</strong>l Campo 1 , P. Häberle 1<br />

1 Depto. <strong>de</strong> <strong>Física</strong>, <strong>Universidad</strong> <strong>Técnica</strong> Fe<strong>de</strong>rico <strong>Santa</strong> María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile<br />

email address corresponding author: valeria.<strong>de</strong>lcampo@usm.cl<br />

Graphene is composed by sp 2 carbon<br />

atoms which are arranged in a twodimensional<br />

honeycomb lattice. It has been<br />

observed that carriers behave as massless<br />

Dirac fermions; this makes graphene a<br />

promising material for microelectronics. In this<br />

sense, plenty of research has been ma<strong>de</strong> on<br />

graphene electronic structure. It has been<br />

observed that graphene has a single state at the<br />

Fermi energy in which the π and π* bands<br />

cross at the K point of the Brillouin zone [1]. It<br />

was found that when graphene interacts with<br />

another graphene layer a band gap is opened<br />

[2]. It is also reported that when graphene<br />

grows on a metal surface like Ru(0001) there<br />

is a strong chemical bonding and graphene<br />

looses its 2D properties, but when a second<br />

layer is grown in that system, that layer shows<br />

similar properties to isolated graphene<br />

monolayer [3]. All these studies on graphene<br />

electronic structure have been performed with<br />

techniques which allow analysis of graphene<br />

valence band, no specific studies have been<br />

performed to characterize graphene conduction<br />

band.<br />

For graphene growth we heat a<br />

ruthenium cristal above 1000ºC in Ultra High<br />

Vacuum (~10 -10 Torr). We introduce ethylene<br />

(C 2 H 4 ) to the vacuum chamber, reaching a<br />

pressure of 1.5x10 -7 Torr. After a few minutes<br />

we cool the substrate down to 800ºC and<br />

monitor graphene growth with Low Energy<br />

Electron Diffraction (LEED). Once the<br />

graphene covers the substrate we cool down to<br />

room temperature.<br />

To study the unoccupied band<br />

(conduction band) structure of graphene, we<br />

use Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy (IPS).<br />

This technique consists on impinging electrons<br />

on the sample. The inciding electrons <strong>de</strong>cay<br />

from one unnocupied state to another<br />

(<strong>de</strong>pending on their initial energy). From this<br />

trasitions photons are emmited from the<br />

sample. We perform isocromat IPS, <strong>de</strong>tecting<br />

only the photons that leave the sample with 9.5<br />

eV. Through the analysis of the photon<br />

intensity as a function of electrons initial<br />

energy we get an insight on the conduction<br />

band of the sample.<br />

Figure 1. Experimental set up for Inverse<br />

Photoemission Spectroscopy. Photons are emitted<br />

after the interaction between electrons and the<br />

sample, only photons with 9.5 eV are <strong>de</strong>tected.<br />

References<br />

[1] S. Marchini, S. Günther, and J. Wintterlin,<br />

Phys. Rev. B 76, 075429 (2007).<br />

[2] T. Ohta, A. Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, T.<br />

Seyller, K. Horn and E. Rotenberg, PRL 98,<br />

206802 (2007).<br />

[3] P. W. Sutter, J. I. Flege and E. A. Sutter,<br />

Nature Materials, 7, 406-411 (2008).<br />

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