Issue 35, 2012
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

CVD growth of large area and uniform graphene on tilted copper foil for high performance flexible transparent conductive film†

Jia Zhang,*ab   PingAn Hu,*ab   Xiaona Wang,*ab   Zhenlong Wang,*b   Danqin Liu,c   Bin Yangc  and  Wenwu Caoc  

* Corresponding authors

a Academy of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 2 YiKuang Street, Harbin, P.R. China
E-mail: hupa@hit.edu.cn

b Key Lab of Microsystem and Microstructure, Harbin Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education, No. 2 YiKuang Street, Harbin, P.R. China

c Condensed Matter Science and Technology Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, P.R. China

Abstract

This study has been performed on the synthesis of a large area, uniform graphene film on tilted copper foil against gaseous flow in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system. The copper foil on which the graphene grows is tilted against gaseous flow in the CVD process, which promotes the uniformity of graphene due to geometrical fluidic dynamics. The uniform graphene film with grain size up to ten micrometers and few defects has been synthesized on copper foils using optimized parameters including growth time, methane concentration and growth temperature. Field effect transistors made of the grown graphene show high carrier mobilities of 5080.5 cm2 V−1 s−1, indicating fine quality graphene. These uniform graphenes can be used as high performance, flexible transparent conductors, which show improved tradeoff between conductivity and transparency: the transmittance of 96.5% at 550 nm with sheet resistance of ∼600 Ω sq−1, and the transmittance of 86.7% at 550 nm with sheet resistance of ∼400 Ω sq−1.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM33881E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Jun 2012
Accepted
25 Jul 2012
First published
07 Aug 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 18283-18290

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CVD growth of large area and uniform graphene on tilted copper foil for high performance flexible transparent conductive film

J. Zhang, P. Hu, X. Wang, Z. Wang, D. Liu, B. Yang and W. Cao, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 18283 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM33881E

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