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• TITLE: Graphene Flakes in Arc Plasma: Conditions for the Fast Single-Layer Growth

  AUTHORS: Igor Levchenko, Uroš Cvelbar, Michael Keidar

  KEYWORDS: Graphene Flakes, Arc Plasma, Growth, Few-Layer Graphene

  JOURNAL NAME: Graphene, Vol.5 No.2, April 27, 2016

  ABSTRACT: The results of systematic numerical studies of graphene flakes growth in low-temperature arc discharge plasmas are presented. Diffusion-based growth model was developed, verified using the previously published experiments, and used to investigate the principal effects of the process parameters such as plasma density, electron temperature, surface temperature and time of growth on the size and structure of the plasma-grown graphene flakes. It was demonstrated that the higher growth temperatures result in larger graphene flakes reaching 5 μm, and simultaneously, lead to much lower density of the carbon atoms adsorbed on the flake surface. The low density of the carbon adatoms reduces the probability of the additional graphene layer nucleation on surface of growing flake, thus eventually resulting in the synthesis of the most valuable single-layered graphenes.