• 文献标题:   Tailoring the thermal and electrical transport properties of graphene films by grain size engineering
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MA T, LIU ZB, WEN JX, GAO Y, REN XBA, CHEN HJ, JIN CH, MA XL, XU NS, CHENG HM, REN WC
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   60
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms14486
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Understanding the influence of grain boundaries (GBs) on the electrical and thermal transport properties of graphene films is essentially important for electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications. Here we report a segregation-adsorption chemical vapour deposition method to grow well-stitched high-quality monolayer graphene films with a tunable uniform grain size from similar to 200 nm to similar to 1 mu m, by using a Pt substrate with medium carbon solubility, which enables the determination of the scaling laws of thermal and electrical conductivities as a function of grain size. We found that the thermal conductivity of graphene films dramatically decreases with decreasing grain size by a small thermal boundary conductance of similar to 3.8 x 10(9) Wm(-2) K-1, while the electrical conductivity slowly decreases with an extraordinarily small GB transport gap of similar to 0.01 eV and resistivity of similar to 0.3 k Omega mu m. Moreover, the changes in both the thermal and electrical conductivities with grain size change are greater than those of typical semiconducting thermoelectric materials.