Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano7100302
Keywords
solid source doping technique; CVD; N-doped graphene; low defects; field-effect transistors
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [106-2221-E-182-059-MY3, 106-2632-E-182-001, 106-2911-I-182-504]
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital [CMRPD2F0022, CMRPD2G0101]
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N-doped graphene with low intrinsic defect densities was obtained by combining a solid source doping technique and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The solid source for N-doping was embedded into the copper substrate by NH3 plasma immersion. During the treatment, NH3 plasma radicals not only flattened the Cu substrate such that the root-mean-square roughness value gradually decreased from 51.9 nm to 15.5 nm but also enhanced the nitrogen content in the Cu substrate. The smooth surface of copper enables good control of graphene growth and the decoupling of height fluctuations and ripple effects, which compensate for the Coulomb scattering by nitrogen incorporation. On the other hand, the nitrogen atoms on the pre-treated Cu surface enable nitrogen incorporation with low defect densities, causing less damage to the graphene structure during the process. Most incorporated nitrogen atoms are found in the pyrrolic configuration, with the nitrogen fraction ranging from 1.64% to 3.05%, while the samples exhibit low defect densities, as revealed by Raman spectroscopy. In the top-gated graphene transistor measurement, N-doped graphene exhibits n-type behavior, and the obtained carrier mobilities are greater than 1100 cm(2).V-1.s(-1). In this study, an efficient and minimally damaging n-doping approach was proposed for graphene nanoelectronic applications.
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