Hierarchy of electronic properties of chemically derived and pristine graphene probed by microwave imaging.
Local electrical imaging using microwave impedance microscope is performed on graphene in different modalities, yielding a rich hierarchy of the local conductivity. The low-conductivity graphite oxide and its derivatives show significant electronic inhomogeneity. For the conductive chemical graphene, the residual defects lead to a systematic reduction of the microwave signals. In contrast, the signals on pristine graphene agree well with a lumped-element circuit model. The local impedance information can also be used to verify the electrical contact between overlapped graphene pieces.
Kundhikanjana
Worasom
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Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305,USA.
Lai
Keji
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Wang
Hailiang
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Dai
Hongjie
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Kelly
Michael A
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Shen
Zhi-Xun
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