Manifestation of Charged and Strained Graphene Layers in the Raman Response of Graphite Intercalation Compounds

Autor(en)

Julio Cesar Chacon Torres, Ludger Wirtz, Thomas Pichler

Abstrakt

We present detailed multifrequency resonant Raman measurements of potassium graphite intercalation compounds (GICs). From a well-controlled and consecutive in situ intercalation and high-temperature deintercalation approach the response of each stage up to stage VI is identified. The positions of the G and 2D lines as a function of staging depend on the charge transfer from K to the graphite layers and on the lattice expansion. Ab initio calculations of the density and the electronic band structure demonstrate that most (but not all) of the transferred charge remains on the graphene sheets adjacent to the intercalant layers. This leads to an electronic decoupling of these “outer” layers from the ones sandwiched between carbon layers and consequently to a decoupling of the corresponding Raman spectra. Thus, higher stage GICs offer the possibility to measure the vibrations of single, double, and multilayer graphene under conditions of biaxial strain. This strain can additionally be correlated to the in-plane lattice constants of GICs determined by X-ray diffraction. The outcome of this study demonstrates that Raman spectroscopy is a very powerful tool to identify local internal strain in pristine and weakly charged single and few-layer graphene and their composites, yielding even absolute lattice constants.

Organisation(en)

Elektronische Materialeigenschaften

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Luxembourg, Université Lille I - Sciences et Technologies

Journal

ACS Nano

Band

7

Seiten

9249-9259

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

1936-0851

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1021/nn403885k

Publikationsdatum

10-2013

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103020 Oberflächenphysik, 1030 Physik, Astronomie, 103009 Festkörperphysik, 103018 Materialphysik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1867fd4d-8ca4-4757-86c1-741d8c2665f8