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Main Authors: Srivastava, Pawan Kumar, Khandelwal, Vedanki, Reddy, Ramesh, Tarafder, Kartick, Ghosh, Subhasis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17240
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  • Here, we report on controlling strain in graphene by trapping molecules at the graphene-substrate interface, leveraging molecular dipole moments. Spectroscopic and transport measurements show that strain correlates with the dipole moments of trapped molecules, with a dipole range of 1.5 D to 4.9 D resulting in a 50-fold increase in strain and a substantial rise in the residual carrier density. This has been possible by charge transfer between graphene and trapped molecules, altering the C=C bond length, and causing biaxial strain. First-principles density functional theory calculations confirm a consistent dependence of bending height on molecular dipole moments.