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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Super-Resolution Imaging of Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in hBN-Covered and Encapsulated Few-Layer Graphene.

Lina Jäckering, Konstantin G Wirth, Lukas Conrads, Jonas B Profe, Alexander Rothstein, Hristiyana Kyoseva, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dante M Kennes, Christoph Stampfer and 2 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Lina Jäckering1st Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4639-5565
Konstantin G Wirth1st Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Lukas Conrads1st Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2840-1354
Jonas B ProfeInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.
Alexander Rothstein2nd Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Hristiyana Kyoseva2nd Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Kenji WatanabeResearch Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan.
Takashi TaniguchiInternational Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan.
Dante M KennesInstitute for Theory of Statistical Physics, RWTH Aachen University and JARA Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, 52062, Aachen, Germany.
Christoph StampferJuelich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-FIT), 52425, Juelich, Germany.
Lutz WaldeckerJuelich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-FIT), 52425, Juelich, Germany.
Thomas Taubner1st Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 471733165European Union's Horizon 2020 881603JSPS KAKENHI 20H00354JSPS KAKENHI 23H02052
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Abstract

Encapsulating few-layer graphene (FLG) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can cause nanoscale inhomogeneities in the FLG, including changes in stacking domains and topographic defects. Due to the diffraction limit, characterizing these inhomogeneities is challenging. Recently, the visualization of stacking domains in encapsulated four-layer graphene (4LG) has been demonstrated with phonon polariton (PhP)-assisted near-field imaging. However, the underlying coupling mechanism and ability to image subdiffractional-sized inhomogeneities remain unknown. Here, direct replicas and magnified images of subdiffractional-sized inhomogeneities in hBN-covered trilayer graphene (TLG) and encapsulated 4LG, enabled by the hyperlensing effect, are retrieved. This hyperlensing effect is mediated by hBN's hyperbolic PhP that couple to the FLG's plasmon polaritons. Using near-field microscopy, the coupling is identified by determining the polariton dispersion in hBN-covered TLG to be stacking-dependent. This work demonstrates super-resolution and magnified imaging of inhomogeneities, paving the way for the realization of homogeneous encapsulated FLG transport samples to study correlated physics.

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graphenehBNhyperlensinginhomogeneitiesnear‐field imagingpolaritonsstacking domains

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PMID39950849
PMCPMC11984919

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