Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Programmable graphene nanobubbles with three-fold symmetric pseudo-magnetic fields

  • Pengfei Jia,
  • Wenjing Chen,
  • Jiabin Qiao,
  • Miao Zhang,
  • Xiaohu Zheng,
  • Zhongying Xue,
  • Rongda Liang,
  • Chuanshan Tian,
  • Lin He,
  • Zengfeng Di,
  • Xi Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11038-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Presence of nano-bubbles within an atomically thin material generates potentially large pseudo-magnetic fields. Here, the authors report an innovative technique to induce nano-bubbles in graphene with desirable features and high precision through energized AFM tips, and experimentally measure three-fold symmetric pseudo-magnetic fields up to 120 T.