Fast and uniform growth of graphene glass using confined-flow chemical vapor deposition and its unique applications

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• 作者：Zhaolong Chen ; Baolu Guan ; Xu-dong Chen ; Qing Zeng ; Li Lin ; Ruoyu Wang…
• 关键词：graphene glass ; confined ; flow chemical vapor deposition ; transparent heating device ; epitaxial AlN film
• 刊名：Nano Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：10
• 页码：3048-3055
• 全文大小：2,152 KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Chinese Library of Science
  Chemistry
  Nanotechnology
  
• 出版者：Tsinghua University Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：1998-0000
• 卷排序：9

文摘

Fast and uniform growth of high-quality graphene on conventional glass is of great importance for practical applications of graphene glass. We report herein a confined-flow chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach for the high-efficiency fabrication of graphene glass. The key feature of our approach is the fabrication of a 2–4 μm wide gap above the glass substrate, with plenty of stumbling blocks; this gap was found to significantly increase the collision probability of the carbon precursors and reactive fragments between one another and with the glass surface. As a result, the growth rate of graphene glass increased remarkably, together with an improvement in the growth quality and uniformity as compared to those in the conventional gas flow CVD technique. These high-quality graphene glasses exhibited an excellent defogging performance with much higher defogging speed and higher stability compared to those previously reported. The graphene sapphire glass was found to be an ideal substrate for growing uniform and ultra-smooth aluminum nitride thin films without the tedious pre-deposition of a buffer layer. The presented confined-flow CVD approach offers a simple and low-cost route for the mass production of graphene glass, which is believed to promote the practical applications of various graphene glasses.