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Dielectric response and excitations of hydrogenated free-standing graphene

  • 1. Physics Department – Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome (Italy)
  • 2. FIM Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/a, Modena, Italy
  • 3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome (Italy)
  • 4. Institute of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573 (Japan)
  • 5. S3 Center, Istituto Nanoscienze, CNR, Via Campi 213/a, Modena, Italy

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The conversion of semimetallic suspended graphene (Gr) to a large-gap semiconducting phase is realized by controlled adsorption of atomic hydrogen (deuterium) on free-standing Gr veils in nanoporous graphene. The effects of local rehybridization from sp² to sp³ chemical bonding are investigated by combining X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (HREELS) with ab-initio based modelling. The hydrogen adatoms on the C sites induce a stretching frequency, clearly identified in vibrational spectra thanks to the use of the D isotope, which is compatible with the predicted fingerprints of adsorption on both sides of Gr corresponding to the graphane configuration. HREELS of the deuterated samples shows a wide opening of the optical band gap, consistent with the modified spectral density observed in the valence band photoemission. The results are in agreement with ab-initio calculations by GW and Bethe-Salpeter equation approaches, showing a large quasiparticle gap opening and huge excitonic binding energy

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M. G. Betti et al., "Dielectric response and excitations of hydrogenated free-standing graphene"