Precise measurement of the configurational energy of bent graphene membranes via three-dimensional force field spectroscopy

Autor: Keita Nishioka, Makoto Ashino, Keiji Hayashi, Roland Wiesendanger
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Physical Review B. 104
ISSN: 2469-9969
2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.104.085407
Popis: Two key parameters for mechanical properties of atomically thin membranes -- bending rigidity and Gaussian modulus -- describe the relationship between configurational (strain) energy and bending curvatures. The authors apply three-dimensional force field spectroscopy, based on atomic force microscopy (AFM), to convex-curved graphene in rolled and unrolled forms. Force-spectra analysis reveals that the configurational energy is measured precisely via the AFM tip that detects spatially varying surface potentials, owing to rehybridization effects and change in next-neighbor hopping caused by the bending curvatures.
Databáze: OpenAIRE