Influence of Annealing Temperature on the Metal-catalyzed Crystallization of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon to Graphene

doi:10.11901/1005.3093.2017.107

Chinese Journal of Materials Research

2018, Vol. 32

Issue (5): 341-347 DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2017.107

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Influence of Annealing Temperature on the Metal-catalyzed Crystallization of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon to Graphene

Panpan LIU^1,², Hanchao LI², Lin YANG¹, Ting GUO², Peiling KE², Aiying WANG²(

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1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China
2 Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technologies and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China

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Panpan LIU, Hanchao LI, Lin YANG, Ting GUO, Peiling KE, Aiying WANG. Influence of Annealing Temperature on the Metal-catalyzed Crystallization of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon to Graphene. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2018, 32(5): 341-347.

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In order to investigate the transformation behavior of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) into graphene, a three-layered structure material of metal catalyst Ni/ tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C)/Si-substrate was prepared via a two-step process, namely ta-C film was firstly deposited on Si-substrate with a home-made filtered cathodic vacuum arc system, then on which (111) preferential oriented Ni-film was further deposited by electron beam evaporation method. Afterwards the as prepared three-layered structure material was treated via a controlled rapid thermal annealing method in order to transform (ta-C) into graphene. Meanwhile,the effect of annealing temperature on the graphene growth was focused. Results show that both the deposited films of ta-C and Ni all present smooth and uniform surface morphology, which provide the premise for growing high-quality graphene. Furthermore, the annealing temperature plays great role on the crystallization of amorphous carbon into graphene. When the annealing temperature was above 400°C, the multilayered graphene could form on Ni surface, and the better quality of graphene was obtained through annealing at 500°C for 15 min.

Key words: inorganic non-metallic materials multilayer graphene rapid thermal annealing Ni catalyze tetrahedral amorphous carbon

Received: 24 January 2017

Fund: Supported by Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51522106), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51371187), State Key Project of Fundamental Research of China (No. 2013CB632302), Public Projects of Zhejiang Province (No. 2016C31121)

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Fig.1 Schematic of graphene growth process in amorphous carbon system

Fig.2 Deconvolved spectra of XPS C 1s core lever peaks of deposited ta-C film

Fig.3 Raman spectra of deposited ta-C film

Fig.4 AFM surface morphologies of deposited ta-C film (a) and ta-C/Ni film (b)

Fig.5 SEM surface images of samples annealed at 200℃ (a), 300℃ (b), 400℃ (c), 500℃ (d), 600℃ (e) and 900℃ (f)

Fig.6 XRD spectra of samples annealed at 200~600℃, compared with deposited sample in room temperature

Fig.7 Raman spectra (a) of samples annealed at 200~600℃, and I_D/I_G, I_G/I_2D (b) of samples annealed at 400~600℃

Fig.8 Cross-sectional HRTEM image annealed at 500℃ for 15 min (inset shows the interlayer spacing of graphene film)

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