Measuring strain and rotation fields at the dislocation core in graphen

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Bonilla, L.L. and Carpio, Ana and Gong, C. and Warner, J. H. (2015) Measuring strain and rotation fields at the dislocation core in graphen. Physical Review B, 92 (15). pp. 155417-1. ISSN 1098-0121, ESSN: 1550-235X

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Official URL: http://journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.155417




Abstract

Strain fields, dislocations, and defects may be used to control electronic properties of graphene. By using advanced imaging techniques with high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, we have measured the strain and rotation fields about dislocations in monolayer graphene with single-atom sensitivity. These fields differ qualitatively from those given by conventional linear elasticity. However, atom positions calculated from two-dimensional (2D) discrete elasticity and three-dimensional discrete periodized Foppl-von K ¨ arm´ an equations (dpFvKEs) yield fields close to experiments when determined by geometric phase analysis. 2D theories produce symmetric fields whereas those from experiments exhibit asymmetries. Numerical solutions of dpFvKEs provide strain and rotation fields of dislocation dipoles and pairs that also exhibit asymmetries and, compared with experiments, may yield information on out-of-plane displacements of atoms. While discrete theories need to be solved numerically, analytical formulas for strains and rotation about dislocations can be obtained from 2D Mindlin’s hyperstress theory. These formulas are very useful for fitting experimental data and provide a template to ascertain the importance of nonlinear and nonplanar effects. Measuring the parameters of this theory, we find two characteristic lengths between three and four times the lattice spacings that control dilatation and rotation about a dislocation. At larger distances from the dislocation core, the elastic fields decay to those of conventional elasticity. Our results may be relevant for strain engineering in graphene and other 2D materials of current interest.


Item Type:Article
Subjects:Sciences > Physics > Mathematical physics
ID Code:35638
Deposited On:15 Feb 2016 09:57
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