Growing Graphene: The highest quality graphene samples, single-atom-thick layers of carbon, are suspended flakes exfoliated from graphite, but these samples are very small in size (square micrometers). For many electronics applications, larger areas are needed.
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et al. (p. 1312 , published online 7 May) show that graphene grows in a self-limiting way on copper films as large-area sheets (one square centimeter) from methane through a chemical vapor deposition process. The films, which are mainly one layer in thickness, can be transferred to other substrates and have electron mobilities as high as 4300 square centimeters per volt second.
We fabricate and characterize dual-gated graphene field-effect transistors using as top-gate dielectric. We use a thin Al film as a nucleation layer to enable the atomic layer deposition of . Our devices show mobility values of over at room temperature, a finding which indicates that the top-gate stack does not significantly increase the carrier scattering and consequently degrade the device characteristics. We propose a device model to fit the experimental data using a single mobility value.
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