High-mobility, wet-transferred graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition

TL;DR

This study demonstrates that high-mobility single-layer graphene can be achieved through wet transfer and encapsulation techniques, with mobility values surpassing previous methods and comparable to dry transfer, using scalable processes.

Contribution

It introduces a wet transfer method combined with interface cleaning and encapsulation to attain record-high room-temperature mobility in CVD-grown graphene.

Findings

Room-temperature mobility up to 70000 cm^2 V^{-1} s^{-1} achieved

Mobility comparable to dry transfer methods

Effective encapsulation and cleaning enhance graphene quality

Abstract

We report high room-temperature mobility in single layer graphene grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) after wet transfer on SiO$_2$ and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulation. By removing contaminations trapped at the interfaces between single-crystal graphene and hBN, we achieve mobilities up to$\sim70000cm^2 V^{-1} s^{-1}$ at room temperature and$\sim120000cm^2 V^{-1} s^{-1}$ at 9K. These are over twice those of previous wet transferred graphene and comparable to samples prepared by dry transfer. We also investigate the combined approach of thermal annealing and encapsulation in polycrystalline graphene, achieving room temperature mobilities$\sim30000 cm^2 V^{-1} s^{-1}$. These results show that, with appropriate encapsulation and cleaning, room temperature mobilities well above $10000cm^2 V^{-1} s^{-1}$ can be obtained in samples grown by CVD and transferred using a conventional, easily scalable PMMA-based wet approach.