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The growth of high-quality graphene is always a focused issue in the field of two-dimensional materials, and the growth of graphene on brand new substrates has received considerable attention from scholars especially. The research on the nucleation mechanism of graphene deposited on a polycrystalline diamond substrate is of significance in the large-scale preparation of graphene in practice. Here in this work, the direct growth without transfer process of graphene on a diamond substrate is used to obtain the high-quality graphene. The reactive molecular dynamics simulation technology is adopted to imitate the process of graphene deposition and growth on bi-crystal diamond assisted by nickel catalyzed at an atomic level. The effect of the bi-crystal diamond grain boundary on the dynamic behavior of graphene nucleation and growth process is studied. The results demonstrate that the grain boundary carbon atoms can be used as a supplementary carbon source to diffuse into the nickel free surface and participate in the nucleation and growth of graphene. Furthermore, the effect of temperature on the diffusion behavior of carbon atoms is explored, finding that high temperature facilitates the dissociation of atoms in the grain boundary. When the deposition temperature equals 1700 K, it is most conducive to the diffusion of grain boundary carbon atoms in the nickel lattice, which effectively enhances the nucleation density of graphene. Besides, the effect of the deposition carbon source flow rate on the surface quality of graphene is explored, finding that the high-quality graphene surface can be obtained by adopting a lower carbon deposit rate of 1 ps–1 at 1700 K. In brief, the research results obtained not only provide an effective theoretical model and analysis of the mechanism for diamond grain boundary assisted graphene deposition and growth, but also reveal the regular pattern of influence of deposition temperature and deposition carbon source flow rate on the surface quality of synthesized graphene. The present study can lay a theoretical foundation for the fabrication and application of new functional graphene-polycrystalline diamond heterostructures in the fields of ultra-precision manufacturing and microelectronics.
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Keywords:
- graphene /
- diamond grain boundary /
- deposition and growth /
- molecular dynamics
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图 1 双晶金刚石基底仿真模型 (a)俯视图; (b)正视图
Figure 1. Simulation model of bi-crystal diamond substrate: (a) Top view; (b) front view.
图 2 金刚石晶界辅助石墨烯沉积仿真模型
Figure 2. Simulation model of graphene deposition assisted by grain boundary.
图 3 1700 K下镍催化双晶金刚石辅助石墨烯沉积生长过程的顶面原子分布 (a) 80 ps; (b) 170 ps; (c) 270 ps; (d) 380 ps
Figure 3. Top atomic distribution of graphene deposition and growth on bi-crystal diamond assisted by nickel catalyzed at 1700 K: (a) 80 ps; (b) 170 ps; (c) 270 ps; (d) 380 ps.
图 4 1700 K下镍催化双晶金刚石辅助石墨烯沉积生长过程的侧面原子分布 (a) 80 ps; (b) 170 ps; (c) 270 ps; (d) 380 ps
Figure 4. Lateral atomic distribution of graphene deposition and growth on bi-crystal diamond assisted by nickel catalyzed at 1700 K: (a) 80 ps; (b) 170 ps; (c) 270 ps; (d) 380 ps.
图 5 沉积前后模拟体系的 (a)径向分布函数, (b)价键角分布函数
Figure 5. (a) RDF and (b) ADF of initial and final deposition simulation system.
图 6 不同温度下晶界及金刚石顶部晶面裂解的 (a) 碳原子数和(b)扩散系数
Figure 6. (a) The number of carbon atom and (b) diffusion coefficient of grain boundary and top of diamond at various temperatures.
图 7 不同碳沉积速率下石墨烯的顶面生长情况 (a) 0.5 ps–1; (b) 1.0 ps–1; (c) 2.0 ps–1; (d) 3.0 ps–1; (e) 5.0 ps–1
Figure 7. Top growth of graphene at various CDR: (a) 0.5 ps–1; (b) 1.0 ps–1; (c) 2.0 ps–1; (d) 3.0 ps–1; (e) 5.0 ps–1.
图 8 不同碳沉积速率下石墨烯的侧面生长情况 (a) 0.5 ps–1; (b) 1.0 ps–1; (c) 2.0 ps–1; (d) 3.0 ps–1; (e) 5.0 ps–1
Figure 8. Lateral growth of graphene at various CDR: (a) 0.5 ps–1; (b) 1.0 ps–1; (c) 2.0 ps–1; (d) 3.0 ps–1; (e) 5.0 ps–1.
图 9 不同碳沉积速率生长石墨烯的RMS变化情况
Figure 9. The change of graphene RMS with time at different CDR.
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[1] He X, Bai Q, Shen R 2018 Carbon 130 672
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[3] Zhu L, Wang J, Zhang T, Ma L, Lim C W, Ding F, Zeng X C 2010 Nano Lett. 10 494
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[5] Peng Y, Zeng X, Liu L, Cao X, Zou K, Chen R 2017 Carbon 124 541
Google Scholar
[6] Egberts P, Han G H, Liu X Z, Johnson A T C, Carpick R W 2014 ACS Nano 8 5010
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Wang L, Feng W, Yang L Q, Zhang J H 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 176801
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