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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4884015
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- National Centre for Research and Development [GRAF-TECH/NCBR/02/19/2012]
- National Science Centre Poland [2012/07/B/ST3/03220, DEC-2013/10/M/00791]
- Foundation for Polish Science International Ph.D. Projects Program
- EU European Regional Development Fund
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We present optical, electrical, and structural properties of nitrogen-doped graphene grown on the Si face of 4H-SiC (0001) by chemical vapor deposition method using propane as the carbon precursor and N-2 as the nitrogen source. The incorporation of nitrogen in the carbon lattice was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy shows carrier behavior characteristic for massless Dirac fermions and confirms the presence of a graphene monolayer in the investigated nitrogen-doped samples. The structural and electronic properties of the material were investigated by Raman spectroscopy. A systematical analysis of the graphene Raman spectra, including D, G, and 2D bands, was performed. In the case of nitrogen-doped samples, an electron concentration on the order of 5-10 x 10(12) cm(-2) was estimated based upon Raman and Hall effect measurements and no clear dependence of the carrier concentration on nitrogen concentration used during growth was observed. This high electron concentration can be interpreted as both due to the presence of nitrogen in graphitic-like positions of the graphene lattice as well as to the interaction with the substrate. A greater intensity of the Raman D band and increased inhomogeneity, as well as decreased electron mobility, observed for nitrogen-doped samples, indicate the formation of defects and a modification of the growth process induced by nitrogen doping. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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