Oxide-assisted growth of scalable single-crystalline graphene with seamlessly stitched millimeter-sized domains on commercial copper foils.

ABSTRACT: Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is considered as an effective route to obtain large-area and high-quality polycrystalline graphene; however, there are still technological challenges associated with its application to achieve single crystals of graphene. Herein, we present the CVD growth of scalable single-crystalline graphene by seamless stitching millimeter-sized unidirectional aligned hexagonal domains using different types of commercial Cu foils without repeated substrate polishing and H₂-annealing processes. Compared with that reported in previous studies, herein, the average size for the hexagonal graphene domains is enlarged by 1-2 orders of magnitude (from tens of micrometers to millimeter). The key factor for growth is the Cu surface monocrystallization achieved by a pre

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9078575 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature