Publications in Scientific Journals:
P. Braeuninger-Weimer, B. Burton, R. Weatherup, R. Wang, P. Dudin, B. Brennan, A. Pollard, B. C. Bayer, V. Veigang-Radulescu, J. Meyer, B. Murdoch, P. Cumpson, S. Hofmann:
"Reactive intercalation and oxidation at the buried graphene-germanium interface";
APL Materials,
7
(2019),
071107;
1
- 9.
English abstract:
We explore a number of different electrochemical, wet chemical, and gas phase approaches to study intercalation and oxidation at the buried graphene-Ge interface. While the previous literature focused on the passivation of the Ge surface by chemical vapor deposited graphene, we show that particularly via electrochemical intercalation in a 0.25 N solution of anhydrous sodium acetate in glacial acetic acid, this passivation can be overcome to grow GeO2 under graphene. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, He ion microscopy, and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry show that the monolayer graphene remains undamaged and its intrinsic strain is released by the interface oxidation. Graphene acts as a protection layer for the as-grown Ge oxide, and we discuss how these insights can be utilized for new processing approaches.
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5098351
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