期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 1330-1338出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b17428
关键词
Q-carbon; nonequilibrium; laser annealing; polyamorphism; scanning transmission electron microscopy; Raman spectroscopy; molecular dynamics
资金
- Oklahoma State University
- National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research [1735695]
- State of North Carolina
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1726294]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1735695] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Q-carbon is a densely packed metastable phase of carbon formed by ultrafast quenching of carbon melt in a super-undercooled state. After quenching, diamond tetrahedra are randomly packed with >80% packing efficiency. This discovery has opened a pathway to fabricate various interesting heterostructures following the highly nonequilibrium route of nanosecond pulsed laser annealing. In the present work, we demonstrate the evolution of Q-carbon/alpha-carbon and Q-carbon/diamond heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces, controlled via varying solidification rates of the undercooled C melt. This structure consists of ultrahard Q-carbon (similar to 80% sp(3) and rest sp(2)) with an overlayer of soft alpha-carbon (similar to 40% sp(3)) on the inert c-Al2O3 substrate. Using high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy analysis, we present the formation of the highly dense Q-carbon/alpha-carbon bilayer structure with distinctly different atomic and electronic structures. The laser-solid interaction simulations coupled with atomistic ab initio modeling further confirm the conversion of C melt into Q-carbon by achieving maximum undercooling near the substrate and further into alpha-carbon with a decrease in regrowth velocity (<6 m/s) away from the substrate. We present details of the evolution of heterointerfaces formed from carbon melt for designing heterostructures far from equilibrium for various functional applications by using pulsed laser processing.
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