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News 09.02.2017

New publication: Identifying suitable substrates for high-quality graphene-based heterostructures

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2D Mater. 4, 025030 (2017)
We report on a scanning confocal Raman spectroscopy study investigating the strain-uniformity and the overall strain and doping of high-quality chemical vapour deposited (CVD) graphenebased heterostuctures on a large number of different substrate materials, including hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), transition metal dichalcogenides, silicon, different oxides and nitrides, as well as polymers. By applying a hBN-assisted, contamination free, dry transfer process for CVD graphene, high-quality heterostructures with low doping densities and low strain variations are assembled. The Raman spectra of these pristine heterostructures are sensitive to substrate-induced doping and strain variations and are thus used to probe the suitability of the substrate material for potential highquality graphene devices. We find that the flatness of the substrate material is a key figure for gaining, or preserving high-quality graphene.

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