Interface states and anomalous quantum oscillations in hybrid graphene structures

Abstract

One- and two-layer graphene have recently been shown to feature new physical phenomena such as unconventional quantum Hall effects and prospects of supporting a non-silicon technological platform using epitaxial graphene. While both one- and two-layer graphene have been studied extensively, continuous sheets of graphene possessing both parts have not yet been explored. Here we report a study of such graphene hybrid structures. In a bulk hybrid featuring two large-area one- and two-layer graphene and an interface between them, two sets of Landau levels and features related to the interface were found. In edge hybrids featuring a large two-layer graphene with narrow one-layer graphene edges, we observed an anomalous suppression in quantum oscillation amplitude due to the locking of one- and two-layer graphene Fermi energies and emergent chiral interface states. These findings demonstrate the importance of these hybrid structures whose unique interface states and related phenomena deserve further studies.