| Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2014) | |
| Thin Films | Monday Sessions |
| Session TF+NM-MoE |
| Session: | Nanostructures, Graphene, and Magnetism |
| Presenter: | Matthias Batzill, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA |
| Authors: | H. Coy-Diaz, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA J. Avila, 2. Synchrotron Soleil, Orme des Merisiers - Saint Aubin, BP 48 - 91192 - GIF SUR YVETTE Cedex, France M.C. Asensio, 2. Synchrotron Soleil, Orme des Merisiers - Saint Aubin, BP 48 - 91192 - GIF SUR YVETTE Cedex, France M. Batzill, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA |
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Heterostructures made of different van der Waals materials are of increasing interest because of potential applications in energy harvesting and combination of spin- and valley-tronics. However, the interface properties of these materials are not yet well characterized. One challenge for their characterization is the preparation of large-area high quality materials that enable employment of surface characterization techniques such as scanning probe microscopy and photoemission spectroscopy. Here we demonstrate the transfer of CVD-grown graphene to bulk MoS2 substrates and report the first STM and ARPES studies of such a system. As expected for weakly interacting materials STM studies only exhibit a very weak moire-superstructure and (nano) ARPES measurements show that the Dirac cone of graphene is maintained. However, (nano) ARPES also shows the formation of band-gaps in the pi-band of graphene where the out-of-plane molecular orbitals of MoS2 intersect with the electronic-states of graphene. This modification of the electronic structure of graphene in the graphene/MoS2 heterostructure is contrary to expectations of simple van-der Waals stacked materials. The high quality of the samples will enable further studies of the spin state of the graphene and MoS2 substrate as well as enable preparation of other heterostructure materials and thus will give a detailed description of the interaction in these heterostructure systems.