Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Twisted Bilayer Graphene via Hyperthermal Ion Implantation with Depth Control.

Autor: Cress CD; Electronics Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States., Schmucker SW; National Research Council, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States., Friedman AL; Material Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States., Dev P; National Research Council, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University , Washington, DC 20059, United States., Culbertson JC; Electronics Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States., Lyding JW; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States., Robinson JT; Electronics Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory , Washington, DC 20375, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: ACS nano [ACS Nano] 2016 Mar 22; Vol. 10 (3), pp. 3714-22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Mar 03.
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00252
Abstrakt: We investigate hyperthermal ion implantation (HyTII) as a means for substitutionally doping layered materials such as graphene. In particular, this systematic study characterizes the efficacy of substitutional N-doping of graphene using HyTII over an N(+) energy range of 25-100 eV. Scanning tunneling microscopy results establish the incorporation of N substituents into the graphene lattice during HyTII processing. We illustrate the differences in evolution of the characteristic Raman peaks following incremental doses of N(+). We use the ratios of the integrated D and D' peaks, I(D)/I(D') to assess the N(+) energy-dependent doping efficacy, which shows a strong correlation with previously reported molecular dynamics (MD) simulation results and a peak doping efficiency regime ranging between approximately 30 and 50 eV. We also demonstrate the inherent monolayer depth control of the HyTII process, thereby establishing a unique advantage over other less-specific methods for doping. We achieve this by implementing twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with one layer of isotopically enriched (13)C and one layer of natural (12)C graphene, and modify only the top layer of the TBG sample. By assessing the effects of N-HyTII processing, we uncover dose-dependent shifts in the transfer characteristics consistent with electron doping and we find dose-dependent electronic localization that manifests in low-temperature magnetotransport measurements.
Databáze: MEDLINE