Electronic structure of carbon nanostripes

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Jun 27;90(25 Pt 1):256803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.256803. Epub 2003 Jun 26.

Abstract

Carbon nanostripes of graphene structure prepared on the stepped Ni(771) surface have been studied by angle-resolved photoemission. The electronic structure is anisotropic: parallel to the stripe direction, a graphite-type dispersion is measured, whereas the perpendicular direction displays two entangled band structures shifted in energy with respect to each other. These are experimentally identified as the microsurface-centered band structure and its umklapp scattered image caused by the superlattice.