• 文献标题:   Low-damage nitrogen incorporation in graphene films by nitrogen plasma treatment: Effect of airborne contaminants
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BIGRAS GR, GLAD X, VANDSBURGER L, CHARPIN C, LEVESQUE P, MARTEL R, STAFFORD L
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, nincorporation, downstream plasma treatment, xray photoelectron spectroscopy, raman spectroscopy
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Montreal
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2018.12.095
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene films grown on copper by chemical vapor deposition were exposed to the late afterglow of a reduced-pressure N-2 plasma sustained by microwave electromagnetic fields. X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies reveal extremely high incorporation of plasma-generated N atoms into the graphene film (N/C = 29%) while maintaining an unprecedentedly low-damage generation (D:G = 0.35-0.45) compared to the literature (0.5-2.5). The incorporation dynamics between graphene on copper and graphene on copper oxide are also compared and discussed. After transfer on SiO2/Si substrate, the N/C content decrease to only 6%. This reveals that a large part of the N atoms are weakly bonded to the graphene surface. Most of the nitrogen incorporation seems linked to the functionalization of weakly bonded hydrocarbons initially adsorbed from air exposure or carbon-nitrogen structures arising from plasma-surface interactions. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.