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Large-scale Epitaxial Growth Kinetics of Graphene: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study

Huijun Jiang·Zhonghuai Hou
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Epitaxial growth via chemical vapor deposition is considered to be the most promising way towards synthesizing large area graphene with high quality. However, it remains a big theoretical challenge to reveal growth kinetics with atomically energetic and large-scale spatial information included. Here, we propose a minimal kinetic Monte Carlo model to address such an issue on an active catalyst surface with graphene/substrate lattice mismatch, which facilitates us to perform large scale simulations of the growth kinetics over two dimensional surface with growth fronts of complex shapes. A geometry-determined large-scale growth mechanism is revealed, where the rate-dominating event is found to be $C_{1}$-attachment for concave growth front segments and $C_{5}$-attachment for others. This growth mechanism leads to an interesting time-resolved growth behavior which is well consistent with that observed in a recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiment.

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Huijun Jiang, Zhonghuai Hou. 2015-08-15. Large-scale Epitaxial Growth Kinetics of Graphene: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4929471

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