• 文献标题:   Seed-Assisted Growth of Single-Crystalline Patterned Graphene Domains on Hexagonal Boron Nitride by Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SONG XJ, GAN T, NIE YF, ZHUANG JN, SUN JY, MA DL, SHI JP, LIN YW, DING F, ZHANG YF, LIU ZF
  • 作者关键词:   graphene hexagonal boron nitride heterostructure, chemical vapor deposition, seedassisted growth, controllable growth, characterization
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Peking Univ
  • 被引频次:   29
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b02279
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Vertical heterostructures based on two-dimensional layered materials, such as stacked graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (G/h-BN), have stimulated wide interest in fundamental physics, material sciences and nanoelectronics. To date, it still remains challenging to obtain high quality G/h-BN heterostructures concurrently with controlled nucleation density and thickness uniformity. In this work, with the aid of the well-defined poly(methyl methacrylate) seeds, effective control over the nucleation densities and locations of graphene domains on the predeposited h-BN monolayers was realized, leading to the formation of patterned G/h-BN arrays or continuous films. Detailed spectroscopic and morphological characterizations further confirmed that 435.7% of such monolayer graphene domains were of single-crystalline nature with their domain sizes predetermined throughout seed interspacing. Density functional theory calculations suggested that a self-terminated growth mechanism can be applied for the related graphene growth on h-BN/Cu. In turn, as constructed field-effect transistor arrays based on such synthesized single-crystalline G/h-BN patterning were found to be compatible with fabricating devices with nice and steady performance, hence holding great promise for the development of next generation graphene-based electronics.