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Atomic-Scale Variations of the Mechanical Response of 2D Materials Detected by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
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UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia CondensadaPublisher
American Physical SocietyDate
2016-06-17Citation
10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.245502
Physical Review Letters 116.24 (2016): 245502
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0031-9007 (print); 1079-7114 (online)DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.245502Funded by
We thank the Marie Curie ITN Network “ACRITAS” (Grant No. FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN-317348) funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Marie Curie PEOPLE programme and the Spanish MINECO (Projects No. CSD2010-00024, No. MAT2011-23627, No. MAT2013-41636-P, and No. MAT2014-54484-P) for financial support. Computer time was provided by the Spanish Supercomputer Network (RES) at Marenostrum III (BSC, Barcelona) and Magerit (CesViMa, Madrid) computers. P. P. was supported by the Ramón y Cajal programProject
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/317348; Gobierno de España. CSD2010-00024; Gobierno de España. MAT2011-23627; Gobierno de España. MAT2013-41636-P; Gobierno de España. MAT2014-54484-PEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.245502Subjects
Density functional theory; Graphene substrates; Global deformations; Multi-scale modeling; Van Der Waals interactions; FísicaRights
© 2016 American Physical SocietyAbstract
We show that noncontact atomic force microscopy (AFM) is sensitive to the local stiffness in the atomicscale limit on weakly coupled 2D materials, as graphene on metals. Our large amplitude AFM topography and dissipation images under ultrahigh vacuum and low temperature resolve the atomic and moiré patterns in graphene on Pt (111), despite its extremely low geometric corrugation. The imaging mechanisms are identified with a multiscale model based on density-functional theory calculations, where the energy cost of global and local deformations of graphene competes with short-range chemical and long-range van der Waals interactions. Atomic contrast is related with short-range tip-sample interactions, while the dissipation can be understood in terms of global deformations in the weakly coupled graphene layer. Remarkably, the observed moiré modulation is linked with the subtle variations of the local interplanar graphene-substrate interaction, opening a new route to explore the local mechanical properties of 2D materials at the atomic scale
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