• 文献标题:   Pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma exposure of HOPG and graphene: Graphane formation?
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   EREN B, HUG D, MAROT L, PAWLAK R, KISIEL M, STEINER R, ZUMBUHL DM, MEYER E
  • 作者关键词:   graphane, hopg, hydrogenation, plasma
  • 出版物名称:   BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   2190-4286
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Basel
  • 被引频次:   26
  • DOI:   10.3762/bjnano.3.96
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Single- and multilayer graphene and highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) were exposed to a pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma (LTP). Characterizations include various experimental techniques such as photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy. Our photoemission measurement shows that hydrogen LTP exposed HOPG has a diamond-like valence-band structure, which suggests double-sided hydrogenation. With the scanning tunneling microscopy technique, various atomic-scale charge-density patterns were observed, which may be associated with different C-H conformers. Hydrogen-LTP-exposed graphene on SiO2 has a Raman spectrum in which the D peak to G peak ratio is over 4, associated with hydrogenation on both sides. A very low defect density was observed in the scanning probe microscopy measurements, which enables a reverse transformation to graphene. Hydrogen-LTP-exposed HOPG possesses a high thermal stability, and therefore, this transformation requires annealing at over 1000 degrees C.