CORRELATED MICROSCOPY OF ELECTRONIC AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE GROWN ON DIAMOND THIN FILMS

1,2 REZEK Bohuslav
Co-authors:
1 ČERMÁK Jan 1 VARGA Marián 3 TULIC Semir 3 SKÁKALOVÁ Viera 3 WAITZ Thomas 1,4 KROMKA Alexander
Institutions:
1 Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, EU
2 Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electricaafnl Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, EU
3 University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, EU
4 Czech Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, EU
Conference:
8th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 19th - 21st 2016
Proceedings:
Proceedings 8th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
48-53
ISBN:
978-80-87294-71-0
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
17th March 2017
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

We study formation and properties of graphene grown on diamond films with a prospect for large area deposition and devices of graphene. Nanocrystalline diamond thin films (grain size ~ 200 nm) are coated with a thin Ni layer (nominal thickness ~ 20 nm) and heated to 900°C in a forming gas atmosphere (H2/Ar) to initiate a thermally driven catalytic transformation of the diamond surface into graphene by a reaction of Ni with carbon. The samples are cleaned from residual Ni after the catalytic transformation. We employ scanning electron microscopy, Raman micro-spectroscopy, and Kelvin probe force microscopy showing how diamond and grain boundaries influence the graphene growth as well as graphene material, structural, and electronic properties.

Keywords: Graphene, diamond, microscopy, micro-spectroscopy, electronic properties

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