@article{GONTIJO2024129279,
title = {Resonant enhancement of the 2G Raman band in twisted bilayer graphene},
author = {Rafael N. Gontijo and Marcus V. O. Moutinho and Ariete Righi and Po-Wen Chiu and Pedro Venezuela and Marcos A. Pimenta},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254058424004048},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2024.129279},
issn = {0254-0584},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-04-12},
urldate = {2024-01-01},
journal = {Materials Chemistry and Physics},
pages = {129279},
abstract = {Raman spectroscopy is an extremely useful tool to characterize graphene systems. The strongest Raman features are the first-order G band and the second-order 2D and 2D′ bands, which are the overtones of the double resonance D and D’ bands. However, the 2G band, which is the overtone of the G band, is not usually observed in the spectra of monolayer graphene and of crystalline graphite. In this work, we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of the resonance Raman spectra in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with different twisting angles and using several laser excitation energies in the NIR and visible ranges. We observed that the 2G band is enhanced when the incident photons are in resonance with the transition between the van Hove singularities in the density of states of the TBG. We show that the 2G band has three contributions (2G1, 2G2 and 2G3), that are not dispersive by changing the laser excitation energy. We also present theoretical calculations showing that the 2G1 and 2G2 bands are related to combinations of the in-phase (IP) and out-of-phase (OP) vibrations of the atoms in the different layers. The Raman excitation profiles (REPs) of the 2G peaks are upshifted in comparison with the REP of the G band. This behavior was confirmed theoretically using a graphene tight binding model. We conclude that the different resonance behavior comes from the fact that the G band is a first-order process whereas the 2G band is second-order processes giving rise to overall different resonance conditions.},
keywords = {Electronic structure, Resonant Raman spectroscopy, Twisted bilayer graphene},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
