Titel
Silicon–Carbon Bond Inversions Driven by 60-keV Electrons in Graphene
Autor*in
Demie Kepaptsoglou
SuperSTEM Laboratory
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Abstract
We demonstrate that 60-keV electron irradiation drives the diffusion of threefold-coordinated Si dopants in graphene by one lattice site at a time. First principles simulations reveal that each step is caused by an electron impact on a C atom next to the dopant. Although the atomic motion happens below our experimental time resolution, stochastic analysis of 38 such lattice jumps reveals a probability for their occurrence in a good agreement with the simulations. Conversions from three- to fourfold coordinated dopant structures and the subsequent reverse process are significantly less likely than the direct bond inversion. Our results thus provide a model of nondestructive and atomically precise structural modification and detection for two-dimensional materials.
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:930925
Erschienen in
Titel
Physical Review Letters
Band
113
Ausgabe
11
Verlag
American Physical Society (APS)
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
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