Ab initio study of angle-resolved electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene

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Hauptverfasser: Paták, Aleš, Zouhar, Martin, Konvalina, Ivo, Mikmeková, Eliška Materna, Průcha, Lukáš, Müllerová, Ilona, Campbell, Anna Charvátová, Valtr, Miroslav, Horák, Michal, Křápek, Vlastimil, Krasovskii, Eugene
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author Paták, Aleš
Zouhar, Martin
Konvalina, Ivo
Mikmeková, Eliška Materna
Průcha, Lukáš
Müllerová, Ilona
Campbell, Anna Charvátová
Valtr, Miroslav
Horák, Michal
Křápek, Vlastimil
Krasovskii, Eugene
author_facet Paták, Aleš
Zouhar, Martin
Konvalina, Ivo
Mikmeková, Eliška Materna
Průcha, Lukáš
Müllerová, Ilona
Campbell, Anna Charvátová
Valtr, Miroslav
Horák, Michal
Křápek, Vlastimil
Krasovskii, Eugene
contents We present ab initio theory for electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene for arbitrary angles of incidence. The inelastic effects are included in a consistent way using the optical potential retrieved from ab initio simulations of electron energy-loss spectra. We demonstrate a significant impact of inelastic effects even for single-layer graphene. Next, we address the ability of the electron reflection spectroscopy to determine specific parameters of graphene including not only the number of layers in the few-layer graphene but also the stacking type in the graphene multilayers, and to resolve moiré patterns in twisted graphene bilayers. We show that the predicted contrast, although significantly reduced by inelastic effects, is sufficient for the experimental detection of all considered parameters. Our findings are corroborated by a fair correspondence of our theoretical predictions with experimental data, both our own and recently published by other authors.
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spellingShingle Ab initio study of angle-resolved electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene
Paták, Aleš
Zouhar, Martin
Konvalina, Ivo
Mikmeková, Eliška Materna
Průcha, Lukáš
Müllerová, Ilona
Campbell, Anna Charvátová
Valtr, Miroslav
Horák, Michal
Křápek, Vlastimil
Krasovskii, Eugene
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
We present ab initio theory for electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene for arbitrary angles of incidence. The inelastic effects are included in a consistent way using the optical potential retrieved from ab initio simulations of electron energy-loss spectra. We demonstrate a significant impact of inelastic effects even for single-layer graphene. Next, we address the ability of the electron reflection spectroscopy to determine specific parameters of graphene including not only the number of layers in the few-layer graphene but also the stacking type in the graphene multilayers, and to resolve moiré patterns in twisted graphene bilayers. We show that the predicted contrast, although significantly reduced by inelastic effects, is sufficient for the experimental detection of all considered parameters. Our findings are corroborated by a fair correspondence of our theoretical predictions with experimental data, both our own and recently published by other authors.
title Ab initio study of angle-resolved electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09255