Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Frustrated supercritical collapse in tunable charge arrays on graphene

  • Jiong Lu,
  • Hsin-Zon Tsai,
  • Alpin N. Tatan,
  • Sebastian Wickenburg,
  • Arash A. Omrani,
  • Dillon Wong,
  • Alexander Riss,
  • Erik Piatti,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Alex Zettl,
  • Vitor M. Pereira,
  • Michael F. Crommie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08371-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Placement of charge centres with atomic precision on graphene allows exploration of new types of confinement of charge carriers. Here, the authors fabricate atomically precise arrays of point charges on graphene and observe the onset of a frustrated supercritical regime.