2010/12/31 by Kongara M. Reddy, K. M. Reddy, Andrew D. Gledhill +4
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Memory and Neural Computing #Basal plane #Chemistry #Computer science #Crystal (programming language) #Crystallite #Crystallography #Epitaxy #Graphene #Graphene nanoribbons #Graphene oxide paper #Graphene research and applications #Layer (electronics) #Materials science #Metallurgy #Nanotechnology #Optics #Optoelectronics #Physics #Sapphire #Semiconductor materials and devices #Single crystal #Substrate (aquarium) #Thin film #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.3569143
published as Applied Physics Letters, 98 (2011) 113117 · 10 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2011/03/14 · arxiv created 2011/03/18 · arxiv updated 2011/03/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The current method of growing large-area graphene on polycrystalline Cu surfaces (foils or thin films) and its transfer to arbitrary substrates is technologically attractive. However, the quality of graphene can be improved significantly by growing it on single-crystal Cu surfaces. Here we show that high quality, large-area graphene can be grown on epitaxial single-crystal Cu(111) thin films on reusable basal-plane sapphire [α-Al2O3(0001)] substrates for transfer to another substrate. While enabling graphene growth on Cu single-crystal surfaces, this method has the potential to avoid the high cost and extensive damage to graphene associated with sacrificing bulk single-crystal Cu during graphene transfer.