Low Dimensional Systems on Silicon Carbide Surfaces

量子物理学・ナノサイエンス第186回セミナー

概要

Silicon carbide is a wide band gap semiconductor which has attracted a lot of interest due to its physical properties making this material particularly suitable for high temperature, high power and high frequency applications. The different SiC polytypes show a great variety of surface reconstructions which were extensively studied in the last decades. Now, we have reached the point where the surface reconstructions are sufficiently well understood and controlled to move to the next step and use them as a template to create new nanostructures and low dimensional systems.

In this presentation, I will address two examples of these low dimensional nano-objets created on silicon carbide surfaces.

In the first part, I will concentrate on the cubic 3C-SiC andmore particularly on hydrogen adsorption on the 3C-SiC(001)-3x2 surface reconstruction. I will explain how, by combining valence-band photoemission, abinitio calculations and vibrational spectroscopies, we could establish the formation of nano-tunnels due to hydrogen atoms interaction with the subsurface region of the semiconductor ^[1]. In a second part, I will focus on graphene on hexagonal 6H-SiC samples. Silicon intercalation under the carbon terminated (6√3x6√3)R30 layer was followed step by step by means of core level photoemission spectroscopy. The results show that sequences of Si deposition and annealing can lead to a fully decoupled graphene layer on 6H-SiC(0001). For partial decoupling, we can evidence the formation of nanometric metal-semiconductor heterojunctions.

Reference:

[1] P. Soukiassian, E. Wimmer, E. Clasco, C. Giallombardo, S. Bonanni, L.Vattuone, L. Savio, A. Tejeda,M. Silly, M. D'angelo, F. Sirotti and M. Rocca, Nature Communications 4, 2800 (2013)

[2] M. Silly, M. D'angelo, A. Besson, Y.J. Dappe, S. Kubsky, G. Li, F. Nicolas, D. Pierucci and M. Thomasset, Carbon 76, 27 (2014)

• 量子物理学・ナノサイエンス第186回セミナー

• ナノサイエンス・量子物理学国際研究センター 主催
• 東京工業大学理学院・物理学系、「ナノサイエンスを拓く量子物理学拠点」共催