Tuning the electronic structure of graphene by ion irradiation
Tuning the electronic structure of graphene by ion irradiation
Mechanically exfoliated graphene layers deposited on ${\text{SiO}}_{2}$ substrate were irradiated with ${\text{Ar}}^{+}$ ions in order to experimentally study the effect of atomic scale defects and disorder on the low-energy electronic structure of graphene. The irradiated samples were investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements, which reveal that defect sites, …