• 文献标题:   Direct Four-Probe Measurement of Grain-Boundary Resistivity and Mobility in Millimeter-Sized Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MA RS, HUAN Q, WU LM, YAN JH, GUO W, ZHANG YY, WANG S, BAO LH, LIU YQ, DU SX, PANTELIDES ST, GAO HJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, grain boundary, wrinkle, fourprobe measurement, mobility
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01624
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Grain boundaries (GBs) in polycrystalline graphene scatter charge carriers, which reduces carrier mobility and limits graphene applications in high-speed electronics. Here we report the extraction of the resistivity of GBs and the effect of GBs on carrier mobility by direct four-probe measurements on millimeter-sized graphene bicrystals grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). To extract the GB resistivity and carrier mobility from direct four-probe intragrain and intergrain measurements, an electronically equivalent extended 2D GB region is defined based on Ohms law. Measurements on seven representative GBs find that the maximum resistivities are in the range of several kO center dot mu m to more than 100 k Omega center dot mu m. Furthermore, the mobility in these defective regions is reduced to 0.4-5.9 parts per thousand of the mobility of single-crystal, pristine graphene. Similarly, the effect of wrinkles on carrier transport can also be derived. The present approach provides a reliable way to directly probe charge-carrier scattering at GBs and can be further applied to evaluate the GB effect of other two-dimensional polycrystalline materials, such as transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs).