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Nature Materials 7, 259 - 260 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2154b

Origin of the energy bandgap in epitaxial graphene

S.Y. Zhou1,2, D.A. Siegel1,2, A.V. Fedorov3, F.El Gabaly2, A.K. Schmid2, A.H. Castro Neto4, D.-H. Lee1,2 & A. Lanzara1,2

  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  2. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  3. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  4. Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA

Correspondence to: A. Lanzara1,2 e-mail: ALanzara@lbl.gov

We show here that the argument presented by Rotenberg et al. in the preceding comment to account for the energy gap reported by us1 in epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC is unfounded. In our view, the effects of modulations on the lateral structure of graphene films alone cannot account for the large gap observed in films with single-layer graphene terraces exceeding 150 nm in size.

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