Self-Terminating Confinement Approach for Large-Area Uniform Monolayer Graphene Directly over Si/SiOx by Chemical Vapor Deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1946-1956

  Pang, Jinbo ^b   Mendes, Rafael G ^a,b   Wrobel, Pawel S ^c   Wlodarski, Michal D ^c   Ta, Huy Quang ^b,c   Zhao, Liang ^a   Giebeler, Lars ^b   Trzebicka, Barbara ^c   Gemming, Thomas ^b   Fu, Lei ^d   Liu, Zhongfan ^a,e   Eckert, Juergen ^f,g   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^a,b,c   Rümmeli, Mark H ^a,b,c  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS   (Poland)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

carrier mobility; chemical vapor deposition; direct monolayer graphene growth; grain boundaries; optical transmission; silicon; uniform graphene

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; DEPOSITION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAPHENE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALS; MONOLAYERS; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CATALYTICALLY-ACTIVE METALS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); DIRECT FABRICATIONS; DIRECT SYNTHESIS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; GRAPHENE GROWTH; HEXAGONAL CELLS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 85014232813     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b08069     Document Type: Article

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