Corrugation-dominated mechanical softening of defect-engineered graphene
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| author | Joudi, Wael Windisch, Rika Saskia Trentino, Alberto Propst, Diana Madsen, Jacob Susi, Toma Mangler, Clemens Mustonen, Kimmo Libisch, Florian Kotakoski, Jani |
| author_facet | Joudi, Wael Windisch, Rika Saskia Trentino, Alberto Propst, Diana Madsen, Jacob Susi, Toma Mangler, Clemens Mustonen, Kimmo Libisch, Florian Kotakoski, Jani |
| contents | We measure the two-dimensional elastic modulus $E^\text{2D}$ of atomically clean defect-engineered graphene with a known defect distribution and density in correlated ultra-high vacuum experiments. The vacancies are introduced via low-energy (< 200 eV) Ar ion irradiation and the atomic structure is obtained via semi-autonomous scanning transmission electron microscopy and image analysis. Based on atomic force microscopy nanoindentation measurements, a decrease of $E^\text{2D}$ from 286 to 158 N/m is observed when measuring the same graphene membrane before and after an ion irradiation-induced vacancy density of $1.0\times 10^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. This decrease is significantly greater than what is predicted by most theoretical studies and in stark contrast to some measurements presented in the literature. With the assistance of atomistic simulations, we show that this softening is mostly due to corrugations caused by local strain at vacancies with two or more missing atoms, while the influence of single vacancies is negligible. We further demonstrate that the opposite effect can be measured when surface contamination is not removed before defect engineering |
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| spellingShingle | Corrugation-dominated mechanical softening of defect-engineered graphene Joudi, Wael Windisch, Rika Saskia Trentino, Alberto Propst, Diana Madsen, Jacob Susi, Toma Mangler, Clemens Mustonen, Kimmo Libisch, Florian Kotakoski, Jani Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We measure the two-dimensional elastic modulus $E^\text{2D}$ of atomically clean defect-engineered graphene with a known defect distribution and density in correlated ultra-high vacuum experiments. The vacancies are introduced via low-energy (< 200 eV) Ar ion irradiation and the atomic structure is obtained via semi-autonomous scanning transmission electron microscopy and image analysis. Based on atomic force microscopy nanoindentation measurements, a decrease of $E^\text{2D}$ from 286 to 158 N/m is observed when measuring the same graphene membrane before and after an ion irradiation-induced vacancy density of $1.0\times 10^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. This decrease is significantly greater than what is predicted by most theoretical studies and in stark contrast to some measurements presented in the literature. With the assistance of atomistic simulations, we show that this softening is mostly due to corrugations caused by local strain at vacancies with two or more missing atoms, while the influence of single vacancies is negligible. We further demonstrate that the opposite effect can be measured when surface contamination is not removed before defect engineering |
| title | Corrugation-dominated mechanical softening of defect-engineered graphene |
| topic | Materials Science Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05194 |