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By JENNIFER CHU, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY APRIL 4, 2017

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MIT engineers have developed a new technique to produce graphene with fewer wrinkles, using 39,600円 17,600円 50,600円
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engineers at MIT have developed a technique to produce highly conductive wrinkle-
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more efficient electronic and photonic devices.

The holdup comes with the manufacturing process. It is extremely difficult to

manufacture a single, perfectly flat, ultrathin sheet of carbon atoms, precisely
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A patchwork of wrinkles
The most common way to make graphene involves chemical vapor deposition,
or CVD, a process in which carbon atoms are deposited onto a crystalline
substrate such as copper foil. Once the copper foil is evenly coated with a
single layer of carbon atoms, scientists submerge the entire thing in acid to
etch away the copper. What remains is a single sheet of graphene, which
researchers then pull out from the acid.

The CVD process can produce relatively large, macroscropic wrinkles in

graphene, due to the roughness of the underlying copper itself and the process
of pulling the graphene out from the acid. The alignment of carbon atoms is
not uniform across the graphene, creating a “polycrystalline” state in which
graphene resembles an uneven, patchwork terrain, preventing electrons from
flowing at uniform rates.
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In 2013, while working at IBM, Kim and his colleagues developed a method to
fabricate wafers of single-crystalline graphene, in which the orientation of
carbon atoms is exactly the same throughout a wafer.
Rather than using CVD, his team produced single-crystalline graphene from a
silicon carbide wafer with an atomically smooth surface, albeit with tiny, step-
like wrinkles on the order of several nanometers. They then used a thin sheet
of nickel to peel off the topmost graphene from the silicon carbide wafer, in a
process called layer-resolved graphene transfer.

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In the newly published study, Kim and his colleagues discovered that the layer-
resolved graphene transfer irons out the steps and tiny wrinkles in silicon
carbide-fabricated graphene. Before transferring the layer of graphene onto a Artificial Intelligence Astronaut

silicon wafer, the team oxidized the silicon, creating a layer of silicon dioxide
that naturally exhibits electrostatic charges. When the researchers then Astronomy Astrophysics
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Kim says this ironing method would not work on CVD-fabricated graphene, as
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high, short enough to be flattened out.”
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The researchers fabricated tiny transistors on multiple sites on each wafer, NASA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
including across previously wrinkled regions, to test whether the flattened,
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single-crystalline graphene wafers were single-domain.
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“We measured electron mobility throughout the wafers, and their performance
was comparable,” Kim says. “What’s more, this mobility in ironed graphene is
two times faster. So now we really have single-domain graphene, and its
electrical quality is much higher [than graphene-attached silicon carbide].”

Kim says that while there are still challenges to adapting graphene for use in
electronics, the group’s results give researchers a blueprint for how to reliably
manufacture pristine, single-domain, wrinkle-free graphene at wafer scale.
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“If you want to make any electronic device using graphene, you need to work
with single-domain graphene,” Kim says. “There’s still a long way to go to
make an operational transistor out of graphene. But we can now show the
community guidelines for how you can make single-crystalline, single-domain
graphene.”

Reference: “Unveiling the carrier transport mechanism in epitaxial graphene

for forming wafer‐scale, single‐domain graphene” by Sang-Hoon Bae, Xiaodong
Zhou, Seyoung Kim, Yun Seog Lee, Samuel S. Cruz, Yunjo Kim, James B.
Hannon, Yang Yang, Devendra K. Sadana, Frances M. Ross, Hongsik Park and
Jeehwan Kim, 3 April 2017, PNAS.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620176114

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