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Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is an essential method of depositing and fabricating large-area and high-quality graphene. In this work, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technology is adopted to simulate the fabrication of graphene on the copper (111) crystal surface by chemical vapor deposition method. In order to eliminate the adverse effects of traditional MD method, an adapted potential system between carbon and copper atoms is introduced into the modeling of deposition and growth simulation of graphene. The results reveal the microscale growth mechanism of the graphene depositing on Cu(111) crystal surfaces, and the influence of temperature and carbon deposition rate (CDR) on the quality of graphene. The simulation results indicate that the deposition and growth of graphene consists of two stages. The first stage is to form binary carbons, trinary carbons and carbon chains. The second stage is to form carbon rings and the defects healing. The research results also reveal that high temperature can provide the carbon atoms with sufficient energy, which can help the carbon atoms to skip the energetic barrier between the two stages, and then achieve the deposition and growth of graphene. Moreover, the influence of temperature and carbon deposition rate are investigated in detail. The temperature mainly affects the defects and the flatness of graphene. The defects of graphene are the least and the surface can become the flattest at a deposition temperature of 1300 K. Higher temperature can cause the carbon atoms to irregularly move, and lower temperature can suppress the catalysis of the copper substrate. Both the higher and lower temperature can degrade the quality of the graphene surface. The CDR can influence the defects of graphene in growth. The lower value of CDR can lead to local growth on the graphene surface because of the lower nucleation density while the higher CDR is also able to cause the defects to form because of the uneven free energy distribution on the copper surface that has thermal fluctuation. It is shown that graphene can present the flattest surface when the value of CDR is set to be 5 ps–1. According to the simulation process of deposition, it validates that the bi-layer and multi-layer graphene may grow based on the deposition of original single layer of graphene. As to the deposition and growth practice, it is suggested that the temperature 1300K should be suitable for the graphene CVD process of Cu(111) surface. The results in this work can provide a reference for understanding and implementing the fabrication of graphene on the Cu substrate by CVD methods.
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Keywords:
- graphene /
- molecular dynamics /
- deposition and growth /
- mechanism
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图 1 金属铜基底的沉积生长仿真模型
Figure 1. Deposition and growth simulation model of copper substrate.
图 2 石墨烯沉积生长的原子分布图 (a) 28.3 ps; (b) 36.1 ps; (c) 39.7 ps; (d) 42.4 ps; (e) 52.2 ps; (f) 100 ps; (g) 116 ps; (h) 118 ps; (i) 200 ps
Figure 2. Atomic distributation of graphene deposition and growth: (a) 28.3 ps; (b) 36.1 ps; (c) 39.7 ps; (d) 42.4 ps; (e) 52.2 ps; (f) 100 ps; (g) 116 ps; (h) 118 ps; (i) 200 ps.
图 3 九元碳环分裂生成五元碳环和六元碳环 (a) 73.2 ps; (b) 99.7 ps; (c) 101.4 ps
Figure 3. Nine-carbon ring is decomposed into five-carbon and six-carbon rings: (a) 73.2 ps; (b) 99.7 ps; (c) 101.4 ps
图 4 游离态碳原子嵌入生成六元碳环 (a) 90.2 ps; (b) 98.9 ps; (c) 99.1 ps; (d) 109.6 ps
Figure 4. The embedding of free carbon atoms and the formation of six-carbon rings: (a) 90.2 ps; (b) 98.9 ps; (c) 99.1 ps; (d) 109.6 ps
图 5 石墨烯在不同温度下的正面生长情况 (a) 900 K; (b) 1100 K; (c) 1300 K; (d) 1500 K
Figure 5. Front growth of graphene at different temperatures: (a) 900 K; (b) 1100 K; (c) 1300 K; (d) 1500 K.
图 6 石墨烯在不同温度下的侧面生长情况 (a) 900 K; (b) 1100 K; (c) 1300 K; (d) 1500 K
Figure 6. Lateral growth of graphene at different temperatures: (a) 900 K; (b) 1100 K; (c) 1300 K; (d) 1500 K.
图 7 石墨烯在不同温度下五元和六元碳环的数量
Figure 7. The number of five-carbon and six-carbon ring in graphene at different temperatures
图 8 不同温度下的石墨烯RMS随时间变化情况
Figure 8. The change of graphene RMS with time at different temperatures.
图 9 石墨烯在不同CDR下的正面生长情况 (a) 2 ps–1; (b) 2.5 ps–1; (c) 3.33 ps–1; (d) 5 ps–1; (e) 10 ps–1
Figure 9. Front growth of graphene at various CDRs: (a) 2 ps–1; (b) 2.5 ps–1; (c) 3.33 ps–1; (d) 5 ps–1; (e) 10 ps–1.
图 10 石墨烯在不同碳沉积速率下的侧面生长情况 (a) 2 ps–1; (b) 2.5 ps–1; (c) 3.33 ps–1; (d) 5 ps–1; (e) 10 ps–1
Figure 10. Lateral growth of graphene at various CDRs: (a) 2 ps–1; (b) 2.5 ps–1; (c) 3.33 ps–1; (d) 5 ps–1; (e) 10 ps–1.
图 11 石墨烯在不同CDR下的五元和六元碳环数量
Figure 11. The number of five-carbon and six-carbon ring in graphene at various CDRs
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[1] Lee C, Wei X, Kysar J W, Hone J 2008 Science 321 385
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[3] Zhu L, Wang J, Zhang T, Ma L, Chee Wah Lim, Ding F, Zeng X 2010 Nano Lett. 10 494
Google Scholar
[4] Balandin A A, Ghosh S, Bao W, Calizo I, Teweldebrhan D, Miao F, Lau C N 2008 Nano Lett. 8 902
Google Scholar
[5] Novoselov K S, Jiang D, Schedin F, Booth T J, Khotkevich V V, Morozov S V, Geim A K 2005 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102 10451
Google Scholar
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