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Distinguishing atomic vibrations near point defects

Local vibrational modes at substitutional impurities in monolayer graphene are resolved with a sensitivity at the chemical bonding level, revealing the impacts of different chemical configurations and mass of impurity atoms on the defect-perturbed vibrational properties.

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Fig. 1: Atomic structure and local vibrational modes of substitutional defects in monolayer graphene.

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Yan, X. Distinguishing atomic vibrations near point defects. Nat. Mater. 22, 540–541 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01538-9

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