Issue 4, 2021

Sequential growth and twisted stacking of chemical-vapor-deposited graphene

Abstract

Adlayers have been one of the main concerns for controlled synthesis of graphene by the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Here we investigate the CVD growth of graphene adlayers on copper (Cu) using isotope-labeling-based Raman spectroscopy and high-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM). The results show that, besides conventional simultaneous growth for all the graphene layers, approximately 37% of the adlayers follow a sequential growth which can occur even hours after the nucleation of the first layer. The proportions of AB (Bernal)- and twisted (t)-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) stacks formed by the two modes are not significantly different. Moreover, in those stacks with both AB- and t-BLG, evidence at the atomic scale demonstrates that they resulted from misoriented domains in their single-crystal-like top layers. We believe that this new understanding of the growth mechanism for graphene adlayers can help pave the way towards the synthesis of large-scale and high-quality graphene with controllable layer numbers.

Graphical abstract: Sequential growth and twisted stacking of chemical-vapor-deposited graphene

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Nov 2020
Accepted
26 Dec 2020
First published
28 Dec 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2021,3, 983-990

Sequential growth and twisted stacking of chemical-vapor-deposited graphene

J. Liu, X. Zhang, S. Zhang, Z. Zou, Z. Zhang, Z. Wu, Y. Xia, Q. Li, P. Zhao and H. Wang, Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 983 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00982B

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