Cooperative island growth of large-area single-crystal graphene on copper using chemical vapor deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5657-5669

  Eres, Gyula ^a   Regmi, Murari ^a   Rouleau, Christopher M ^a   Chen, Jihua ^a   Ivanov, Ilia N ^a   Puretzky, Alexander A ^a   Geohegan, David B ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical vapor deposition; cooperative island growth; graphene; growth kinetics; nucleation density

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAPHENE; KINETICS; METHANE; NUCLEATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; VAPORS;

CARBON INCORPORATION; GRAPHENE GROWTH; ISLAND GROWTH; ISLAND NUCLEATION; KINETIC MODELING; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; STICKING PROBABILITY;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 84903434662     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500209d     Document Type: Article

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