Exploring graphene-substrate interactions: plasmonic excitation in Sn-intercalated epitaxial graphene
In: 2D Materials, Jg. 11 (2024), Heft 2, S. 025013
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Graphene plasmons, including those in intercalated graphene, are an important research focus, with the promise of enabling light manipulation and providing a unique platform for gaining fundamental insights into many-body electronic interactions. In the present work, we discuss the results of low-energy plasmonic excitations in epitaxial quasi-free monolayer graphene formed by intercalation of Sn beneath the buffer layer (BL) on 4 H-SiC(0001). The quantitative analysis of the sheet plasmon dispersion revealed that the Sn-induced ( 1 × 1 ) interface is metallic and results in formation of charge-neutral graphene. A redshift of the 2D plasmon was found, but only after doping with potassium. The Sn-diluted interface, revealing a ( 3 × 3 ) reconstruction and resulting in intrinsically n -type doped graphene, behaves comparably to the BL for epitaxial monolayer graphene (MLG). Furthermore, it seems that a dipolar coupling of the longitudinal charge density fluctuations in graphene to the interface layer triggers the formation and the loss energy of a plasmonic multipole component, which therefore makes it suitable for studying proximity effects of excitations in electronically weakly coupled 2D heterosystems.
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Exploring graphene-substrate interactions: plasmonic excitation in Sn-intercalated epitaxial graphene
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Mamiyev, Zamin ; Tegenkamp, Christoph ; Forschungsgemeinschaft, Deutsche |
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Zeitschrift: | 2D Materials, Jg. 11 (2024), Heft 2, S. 025013 |
Veröffentlichung: | IOP Publishing, 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2053-1583 |
DOI: | 10.1088/2053-1583/ad1a70 |
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