Growth, charge and thermal transport of flowered graphene
arXiv:2002.04391 · doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2020.01.040
Abstract
We report on the structural and transport properties of the smallest dislocation loop in graphene, known as a flower defect. First, by means of advanced experimental imaging techniques, we deduce how flower defects are formed during recrystallization of chemical vapor deposited graphene. We propose that the flower defects arise from a bulge type mechanism in which the flower domains are the grains left over by dynamic recrystallisation. Next, in order to evaluate the use of such defects as possible building blocks for all-graphene electronics, we combine multiscale modeling tools to investigate the structure and the electron and phonon transport properties of large monolayer graphene samples with a random distribution of flower defects. For large enough flower densities, we find that electron transport is strongly suppressed while, surprisingly, hole transport remains almost unaffected. These results suggest possible applications of flowered graphene for electron energy filtering. For the same defect densities, phonon transport is reduced by orders of magnitude as elastic scattering by defects becomes dominant. Heat transport by flexural phonons, key in graphene, is largely suppressed even for very low concentrations.
arXiv comment12 pages, 7 figures
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