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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 135, 期 22, 页码 8409-8414出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja403583s
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- Singapore MOE [R143-000-505-112, R143-000-530-112, R143-000-542-112]
- NUS YIA [R143-000-452-101]
Graphene growth on metal films via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) represents one of the most promising methods for graphene production. The realization of the wafer scale production of single crystalline graphene films requires an tomic scale understanding of the growth mechanism and the growth intermediates of CVD graphene on metal films. Here, we use in situ low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (LT-STM) to reveal the graphene growth intermediates at different stages via thermal decomposition of methane on Cu(111). We clearly demonstrate that various carbon clusters, including carbon dimers, carbon rectangels, and 'zigzag' and 'armchair'-like carbon chains, are the actual growth intermediates prior to the graphene formation. Upon the saturation of these carbon clusters, they can transform into defective graphene possessing pseudoperiodic corrugations and vacancies. These vacancy-defects can only be effectively healed in the presence of methane via high temperature annealing at 800 degrees C and result in the formation of vacancy-free monolayer graphene on Cu(111).
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