• 文献标题:   Ultrafast epitaxial growth of metre-sized single-crystal graphene on industrial Cu foil
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XU XZ, ZHANG ZH, DONG JC, YI D, NIU JJ, WU MH, LIN L, YIN RK, LI MQ, ZHOU JY, WANG SX, SUN JL, DUAN XJ, GAO P, JIANG Y, WU XS, PENG HL, RUOFF RS, LIU ZF, YU DP, WANG EG, DING F, LIU KH
  • 作者关键词:   singlecrystal, industrial cu, graphene, ultrafast, epitaxial
  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE BULLETIN
  • ISSN:   2095-9273 EI 2095-9281
  • 通讯作者地址:   Peking Univ
  • 被引频次:   110
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.scib.2017.07.005
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A foundation of the modern technology that uses single-crystal silicon has been the growth of highquality single-crystal Si ingots with diameters up to 12 inches or larger. For many applications of graphene, large-area high-quality (ideally of single-crystal) material will be enabling. Since the first growth on copper foil a decade ago, inch-sized single-crystal graphene has been achieved. We present here the growth, in 20 min, of a graphene film of (5 x 50) cm(2) dimension with >99% ultra-highly oriented grains. This growth was achieved by: (1) synthesis of metre-sized single-crystal Cu(1 1 1) foil as substrate; (2) epitaxial growth of graphene islands on the Cu(1 1 1) surface; (3) seamless merging of such graphene islands into a graphene film with high single crystallinity and (4) the ultrafast growth of graphene film. These achievements were realized by a temperature-gradient-driven annealing technique to produce single-crystal Cu(1 1 1) from industrial polycrystalline Cu foil and the marvellous effects of a continuous oxygen supply from an adjacent oxide. The as-synthesized graphene film, with very few misoriented grains (if any), has a mobility up to similar to 23,000 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) at 4 K and room temperature sheet resistance of similar to 230 Omega/rectangle. It is very likely that this approach can be scaled up to achieve exceptionally large and high-quality graphene films with single crystallinity, and thus realize various industrial-level applications at a low cost. (C)2017 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights reserved.