• 文献标题:   Large-area epitaxial growth of curvature-stabilized ABC trilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GAO ZL, WANG S, BERRY J, ZHANG QC, GEBHARDT J, PARKIN WM, AVILA J, YI HM, CHEN CY, HURTADOPARRA S, DRNDIC M, RAPPE AM, SROLOVITZ DJ, KIKKAWA JM, LUO ZT, ASENSIO MC, WANG F, JOHNSON ATC
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Penn
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41467-019-14022-3
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

The properties of van der Waals (vdW) materials often vary dramatically with the atomic stacking order between layers, but this order can be difficult to control. Trilayer graphene (TLG) stacks in either a semimetallic ABA or a semiconducting ABC configuration with a gate-tunable band gap, but the latter has only been produced by exfoliation. Here we present a chemical vapor deposition approach to TLG growth that yields greatly enhanced fraction and size of ABC domains. The key insight is that substrate curvature can stabilize ABC domains. Controllable ABC yields similar to 59% were achieved by tailoring substrate curvature levels. ABC fractions remained high after transfer to device substrates, as confirmed by transport measurements revealing the expected tunable ABC band gap. Substrate topography engineering provides a path to large-scale synthesis of epitaxial ABC-TLG and other vdW materials.