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Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2016, Volume 50, Issue 7, Pages 967–972
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Carbon systems
Electron-diffraction study of graphene-film growth stages during the thermal destruction of 6$H$-SiC (000$\bar1$) in vacuum
I. S. Kotousovaa, S. P. Lebedevab, A. A. Lebedevba a Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
b St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
Abstract:
The structure of graphene layers grown by sublimation on a 6$H$-SiC (000$\bar1$) substrate surface is studied by electron diffraction depending on the sublimation temperature and substrate-surface pretreatment method. It is shown that the use of polishing sublimation etching of the substrate before thermal destruction at a temperature of 1350$^\circ$C on the substrate surface results in the formation of single-crystal graphene domains with graphene-lattice rotation by 30$^\circ$ with respect to the SiC lattice and a small fraction of amorphous domains. An increase in the temperature to 1500$^\circ$C leads to the partial formation of a polycrystalline graphene phase with turbostratic structure while retaining the preferred orientation of graphene crystallites as at 1350$^\circ$C. The use of pregrowth annealing before thermal destruction makes it possible to grow a graphene film with a more ordered and homogeneous structure without inclusions of amorphous and polycrystalline components. The preferred orientation of graphene domains in the film remains unchanged.
Received: 28.12.2015 Accepted: 11.01.2016
Citation:
I. S. Kotousova, S. P. Lebedev, A. A. Lebedev, “Electron-diffraction study of graphene-film growth stages during the thermal destruction of 6$H$-SiC (000$\bar1$) in vacuum”, Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 50:7 (2016), 967–972; Semiconductors, 50:7 (2016), 951–956
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