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The Influence of Copper Substrates on Irradiation Effects of Graphene: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Shulong Wang1, Qian Zhang2, Kai Yin3
1Key Laboratory for Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Materials and Devices of Education, School of Microelectronics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China. slwang@xidian.edu.cn.
Abstract:
In this paper, classical molecular dynamics simulations are conducted to study the graphene grown on copper substrates under ion beam irradiation, in which the emphasis is put on the influence copper substrate on a single graphene layer. It can be inferred that the actual transmission and distribution of kinetic energy from incident ion play important roles in irradiation-defects forming process together. The minimum value needed to generate defects in supported graphene is higher than 2.67 keV, which is almost twice the damage threshold as the suspended graphene sheet. This work indicates the presence of copper substrate increases the damage threshold of graphene. Additionally, our results provide an atomistic explanation for the graphene with copper substrate under ion irradiation, which is very important for engineering graphene.
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