Nucleation of graphene layers on magnetic oxides: Co3O4(111) and Cr2O3(0001) from theory and experiment

Beatty, John; Cheng, Tao; Cao, Yuan; Driver, M. Sky; Goddard, III, William A.; Kelber, Jeffry A.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02325

Title: Nucleation of graphene layers on magnetic oxides: Co₃O₄(111) and Cr₂O₃(0001) from theory and experiment

Journal Article · Wed Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02325· OSTI ID:1347748

Beatty, John ^[1];

^[2]; Cao, Yuan ^[1]; Driver, M. Sky ^[1];

^[2]; Kelber, Jeffry A. ^[1]

Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

We report directly grown strongly adherent graphene on Co₃O₄(111) by carbon molecular beam epitaxy (C MBE) at 850 K and density functional theory (DFT) findings that the first graphene layer is reconstructed to fit the Co₃O₄ surface, while subsequent layers retain normal graphene structure. This adherence to the Co₃O₄ structure results from partial bonding of half the carbons to top oxygens of the substrate. This structure is validated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and low-energy electron diffraction studies, showing layer-by-layer graphene growth with ~0.08 electrons/carbon atom transferred to the oxide from the first graphene layer, in agreement with DFT. In contrast, for Cr₂O₃ DFT finds no strong bonding to the surface and C MBE on Cr₂O₃(0001) yields only graphite formation at 700 K, with C desorption above 800 K. As a result, strong graphene-to-oxide charge transfer aids nucleation of graphene on incommensurate oxide substrates and may have implications for spintronics.

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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0014607; ECCS-1508991; DMR-1436985

OSTI ID:: 1347748

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 1948-7185

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