Electronic transport in heterostructures of chemical vapor deposited graphene and hexagonal boron nitride.
Electronic transport in heterostructures of chemical vapor deposited graphene and hexagonal boron nitride.
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化学气相沉积石墨烯和六方氮化硼异质结构中的电子传输。
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10.1002/smll.201402543
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2015
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Johnson,ATCharlie
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Qi,ZhengqingJohn;Hong,SungJu;Rodríguez-Manzo,JulioA;Kybert,NicholasJ;Gudibande,Rajatesh;Drndić,Marija;Park,YungWoo;Johnson,ATCharlie
Zhengqing John Qi, Sung Ju Hong, Julio A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Nicholas J. Kybert, Rajatesh Gudibande, Marija Drndic′, Yung Woo Park, and AT Charlie Johnson*14,000 cm 2 V− 1 s− 1.[20, 21] However, exfoliation is not a scalable process, so there remains a need to introduce a platform that allows for substrate engineering at the wafer-scale. Recently, CVD growth of hBN has been demonstrated,[22–25] providing a route towards scalable, large-area fabrication of graphene-hBN heterostructure devices. In this work, we provide a systematic study to inform practical design considerations for hBN integration and report record low-and high-field transport in CVD-grown graphene-hBN heterostructure devices. A novel methodology was used to minimize the presence of contaminants in between layers of the graphene-hBN stack, allowing for continuous sheets of CVD-grown monolayer hBN to be consecutively stacked beneath CVD-grown monolayer graphene in intimate contact. The crystallographic orientation between the 2D materials is also controllable, allowing for well-defined stacking orientation and material thickness, advancing beyond previous methods.[23, 24] High-vacuum current-annealing was utilized to lower the contact resistivity and vaporize surface contaminants from the fabrication process of CVD graphenehBN heterostructures, resulting in hole and electron mobility values in excess of 8,000 cm 2 V− 1 s− 1, more than twice that of previous reports.[23, 24] Finally, improved high-temperature (power dissipation) and high-bias (breakdown current density) performance were observed in graphene-hBN heterostructures and attributed to the effect of the 200 times greater thermal conductivity of five-layer hBN as compared to a SiO 2 substrate [26] and the higher energy optical phonon modes.[19] Figure 1 is a schematic of the fabrication process, which is based on transferring and stacking of monolayer materials using a single PMMA resist scaffold to minimize contamination, similar to a recent report.[27] Device fabrication began with separating monolayer graphene from its copper growth substrate using a PMMA layer for mechanical support.[28–30] Metal nanoparticle contamination introduced during etching of the growth substrate was avoided by utilizing the bubbling transfer method.[28, 31] The PMMA-graphene stack was subsequently cleaned in multiple deionized water baths and transferred directly onto a sample of monolayer hBN grown by CVD on a catalytic copper substrate, with the goal of preventing the introduction of unwanted contaminants (eg, resist residue) between the graphene and hBN. This process was repeated until the graphene was supported by five hBN layers. We note that this transfer process allows for layer-bylayer control of the heterostructure thickness and could be utilized to define twist angles between crystalline 2D materials by orienting known edge structures (crystallographic orientation)