Partially Fluorinated Graphene: Structural and Electrical Characterization

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• 作者：Lanxia Cheng ; Srikar Jandhyala ; Greg Mordi ; Antonio T. Lucero ; Jie Huang ; Angelica Azcatl ; Rafik Addou ; Robert M. Wallace ; Luigi Colombo ; Jiyoung Kim
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 24, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：7
• 页码：5002-5008
• 全文大小：407K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Despite the number of existing studies that showcase the promising application of fluorinated graphene in nanoelectronics, the impact of the fluorine bonding nature on the relevant electrical behaviors of graphene devices, especially at low fluorine content, remains to be experimentally explored. Using CF₄ as the fluorinating agent, we studied the gradual structural evolution of chemical vapor deposition graphene fluorinated by CF₄ plasma at a working pressure of 700 mTorr using Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). After 10 s of fluorination, our XPS analysis revealed a co-presence of covalently and ionically bonded fluorine components; the latter has been determined being a dominant contribution to the observation of two Dirac points in the relevant electrical measurement using graphene field effect transistor devices. Additionally, this ionic C–F component (ionic bonding characteristic charge sharing) is found to be present only at low fluorine content; continuous fluorination led to a complete transition to a covalently bonded C–F structure and a dramatic increase of graphene sheet resistance. Owing to the formation of these various C–F bonding components, our temperature-dependent Raman mapping studies show an inhomogeneous defluorination from annealing temperatures starting at ∼150 °C for low fluorine coverage, whereas fully fluorinated graphene is thermally stable up to ∼300 °C.