Date of Award

1-1-2012

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Program

Nanoscale Sciences

Content Description

1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Carl A Ventrice

Committee Members

Robert Geer, Vincent LaBella, Timothy Groves, James Hannon

Keywords

Copper, CVD, Epitaxy, Graphene, Growth, UHV, Nanostructured materials, Nanoelectronics

Subject Categories

Condensed Matter Physics | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Abstract

This dissertation is focused on determining the influence of the copper substrate on graphene grown by \ac{CVD}. Graphene, which can be grown in single atomic layers on copper substrates, has potential applications in future electronic devices. One of the key issues for the use of graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition for device applications is the influence of defects on the transport properties of the graphene. For instance, growth on metal foil substrates results in multi-domain graphene growth because the foil substrates themselves have a variety of different surface terminations. Therefore, they don't serve as a very good template for low defect density graphene growth.

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