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Lateral uniformity of the transport properties of graphene/4H-SiC (0001) interface by nanoscale current measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Filippo Giannazzo ,
Sushant Sonde ,
Jean-Roch Huntzinger ,
Antoine Tiberj ,
Rositza Yakimova ,
Vito Raineri  and
Jean Camassel
Filippo Giannazzo
Affiliation:
[email protected], CNR-IMM, Catania, Italy
Sushant Sonde
Affiliation:
[email protected], CNR-IMM, Catania, Italy
Jean-Roch Huntzinger
Affiliation:
[email protected], GES, CNRS and Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Antoine Tiberj
Affiliation:
[email protected], GES, CNRS and Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Rositza Yakimova
Affiliation:
[email protected], IFM, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
Vito Raineri
Affiliation:
[email protected], CNR-IMM, Catania, Italy
Jean Camassel
Affiliation:
[email protected], GES, CNRS and Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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Abstract

Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy was applied to study the lateral uniformity of current transport at the interface between graphene and 4H-SiC, both in the case of epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on the Si face of 4H-SiC and in the case of graphene exfoliated from HOPG and deposited (DG) on the same substrate. This comparison is aimed to investigate the role played by the C-rich buffer layer present at EG/4H-SiC interface and absent in the case of DG/4H-SiC. The distribution of the local Schottky barrier heights at EG/4H-SiC interface (ΦEG) was compared with the distribution measured at DG/4H-SiC interface (ΦDG), showing that ΦEG (0.36±0.1eV ) is ˜0.49eV lower than ΦDG (0.85 ± 0.06eV). This difference is explained in terms of the Fermi level pinning ˜0.49eV above the Dirac point in EG, due to the presence of positively charged states at the interface between the Si face of 4H-SiC and the buffer layer.

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scanning probe microscopy (SPM)nanoscaleelectrical properties
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1205: Symposium L – Large-Area Electronics from Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Related Noncarbon Nanostructures , 2009 , 1205-L03-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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