Direct growth of single-layer terminated vertical graphene array on germanium by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

Abdulrahman Al-Hagri, Ru Li, Nitul S. Rajput, Jin You Lu, Shan Cong, Karen Sloyan, Mariam Ali Almahri, Srinivasa Reddy Tamalampudi, Matteo Chiesa, Amal Al Ghaferi

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Abstract

Vertically aligned graphene nanosheet arrays (VAGNAs) exhibit large surface area, excellent electron transport properties, outstanding mechanical strength, high chemical stability, and enhanced electrochemical activity, which makes them highly promising for application in supercapacitors, batteries, fuel cell catalysts, etc. It is shown that VAGNAs terminated with a high-quality single-layer graphene sheet, can be directly grown on germanium by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition without an additional catalyst at low temperature, which is confirmed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and large-scale Raman mapping. The uniform, centimeter-scale VAGNAs can be used as a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrate providing evidence of enhanced sensitivity for rhodamine detection down to 1 × 10−6 mol L−1 due to the existed abundant single-layer graphene edges.

Original languageBritish English
Pages (from-to)320-325
Number of pages6
JournalCarbon
Volume155
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019

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