• 文献标题:   Nanometer-scale lithography on microscopically clean graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VAN DORP WF, ZHANG X, FERINGA BL, WAGNER JB, HANSEN TW, DE HOSSON JTM
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Groningen
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1088/0957-4484/22/50/505303
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Focused-electron-beam-induced deposition, or FEBID, enables the fabrication of patterns with sub-10 nm resolution. The initial stages of metal deposition by FEBID are still not fundamentally well understood. For these investigations, graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice, is ideal as the substrate for FEBID writing. In this paper, we have used exfoliated few-layer graphene as a support to study the early growth phase of focused-electron-beam-induced deposition and to write patterns with dimensions between 0.6 and 5 nm. The results obtained here are compared to the deposition behavior on amorphous materials. Prior to the deposition experiment, the few-layer graphene was cleaned. Typically, it is observed in electron microscope images that areas of microscopically clean graphene are surrounded by areas with amorphous material. We present a method to remove the amorphous material in order to obtain large areas of microscopically clean graphene flakes. After cleaning, W(CO) 6 was used as the precursor to study the early growth phase of FEBID deposits. It was observed that preferential adsorption of the precursor molecules on step edges and adsorbates plays a key role in the deposition on cleaned few-layer graphene.