Crystalline Bilayer Graphene with Preferential Stacking from Ni–Cu Gradient Alloy

Gao, Zhaoli; Zhang, Qicheng; Naylor, Carl H.; Kim, Youngkuk; Abidi, Irfan Haider; Ping, Jinglei; Ducos, Pedro; Zauberman, Jonathan; Zhao, Meng -Qiang; Rappe, Andrew M.; Luo, Zhengtang; Ren, Li; Johnson, Alan T. Charlie

doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b06992

Crystalline Bilayer Graphene with Preferential Stacking from Ni–Cu Gradient Alloy

Journal Article · Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2018 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b06992· OSTI ID:1488924

Gao, Zhaoli ^[1]; Zhang, Qicheng ^[2]; Naylor, Carl H. ^[1]; Kim, Youngkuk ^[3]; Abidi, Irfan Haider ^[4]; Ping, Jinglei ^[1]; Ducos, Pedro ^[5]; Zauberman, Jonathan ^[1]; Zhao, Meng -Qiang ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[4]; ^[6]; ^[1]

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea)
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); Univ. San Francisco de Quito, Quito (Ecuador)
South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou (People’s Republic of China)

We developed a high-yield synthesis of highly crystalline bilayer graphene (BLG) with two preferential stacking modes using a Ni–Cu gradient alloy growth substrate. Previously reported approaches for BLG growth include flat growth substrates of Cu or Ni–Cu uniform alloys and “copper pocket” structures. Use of flat substrates has the advantage of being scalable, but the growth mechanism is either “surface limited” (for Cu) or carbon precipitation (for uniform Ni–Cu), which results in multicrystalline BLG grains. For copper pockets, growth proceeds through a carbon back-diffusion mechanism, which leads to the formation of highly crystalline BLG, but scaling of the copper pocket structure is expected to be difficult. Here we demonstrate a Ni–Cu gradient alloy that combines the advantages of these earlier methods: the substrate is flat, so easy to scale, while growth proceeds by a carbon back-diffusion mechanism leading to high-yield growth of BLG with high crystallinity. Here, the BLG layer stacking was almost exclusively Bernal or twisted with an angle of 30°, consistent with first-principles calculations we conducted. Furthermore, we demonstrated scalable production of transistor arrays based crystalline Bernal-stacked BLG with a band gap that was tunable at room temperature.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46431

OSTI ID:: 1488924

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Journal Name: ACS Nano Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 12; ISSN 1936-0851

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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