• 文献标题:   Scaling Properties of Charge Transport in Polycrystalline Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TUAN DV, KOTAKOSKI J, LOUVET T, ORTMANN F, MEYER JC, ROCHE S
  • 作者关键词:   polycrystalline graphene, grain boundarie, charge transport, mobility
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Vienna
  • 被引频次:   74
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl400321r
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Polycrystalline graphene is a patchwork of coalescing graphene grains of varying lattice orientations and size, resulting from the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth at random nucleation sites on metallic substrates. The morphology of grain boundaries has become an important topic given its fundamental role in limiting the mobility of charge carriers in polycrystalline graphene, as compared to mechanically exfoliated samples. Here we report new insights to the current understanding of charge transport in polycrystalline geometries. We created realistic models of large CVD-grown graphene samples and then computed the corresponding charge carrier mobilities as a function of the average grain size and the coalescence quality between the grains. Our results reveal a remarkably simple scaling law for the mean free path and conductivity, correlated to atomic-scale charge density fluctuations along grain boundaries.