• 文献标题:   Influence of Copper Morphology in Forming Nucleation Seeds for Graphene Growth
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HAN GH, GUNES F, BAE JJ, KIM ES, CHAE SJ, SHIN HJ, CHOI JY, PRIBAT D, LEE YH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, chemical vapor deposition, seed, copper, wrinkle
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sungkyunkwan Univ
  • 被引频次:   276
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl201980p
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We report that highly crystalline graphene can be obtained from well-controlled surface morphology of the copper substrate. Flat copper surface was prepared by using a chemical mechanical polishing method. At early growth stage, the density of graphene nucleation seeds from polished Cu film was much lower and the domain sizes of graphene flakes were larger than those from unpolished Cu film. At later growth stage, these domains were stitched together to form monolayer graphene, where the orientation of each domain crystal was unexpectedly not much different from each other. We also found that grain boundaries and intentionally formed scratched area play an important role for nucleation seeds. Although the best monolayer graphene was grown from polished Cu with a low sheet resistance of 260 Omega/sq, a small portion of multilayers were also formed near the impurity particles or locally protruded parts.