J Azpeitia, G Otero-Irurueta, I Palacio, J I Martinez, N Ruiz Del Árbol, G Santoro, A Gutiérrez, L Aballe, M Foerster, M Kalbac, V Vales, F J Mompeán, M García-Hernández, J A Martín-Gago, C Munuera, M F López
We present a new protocol to grow large-area, high-quality single-layer graphene on Cu foils at relatively low temperatures. We use C60 molecules evaporated in ultra high vacuum conditions as carbon source. This clean environment results in a strong reduction of oxygen-containing groups as depicted by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Unzipping of C60 is thermally promoted by annealing the substrate at 800ºC during evaporation. The graphene layer extends over areas larger than the Cu crystallite size, although it is changing its orientation with respect to the surface in the wrinkles and grain boundaries, producing a modulated ring in the low energy electron diffraction (LEED) pattern...
August 2017: Carbon