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Acta Phys. Chim. Sin.  2012, Vol. 28 Issue (07): 1551-1555    DOI: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB201205093
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Fabrication and Structure Characterization of Quasi-2-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon Structures
RAN Ke1,2, CHEN Qing1, ZUO Jian-Min2
1. Key Laboratory for Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871;
2. Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA
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Abstract  

Quasi-2-dimensional total amorphous and half-amorphous carbon structures are fabricated from single-layer or few-layer of graphene via high-energy electron beam irradiation. Sample structures before and after electron beam irradiation are recorded by high resolution imaging and coherent nano-area electron diffraction using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The atomic pair distribution functions of the sample are obtained from electron diffraction patterns. In the quasi-2-dimensional amorphous carbon material, the carbon hexagonal ring structure is not the main structural feature anymore, and the low order nearest distances between carbon atoms are slightly different from that in perfect graphene. Although the sample shows a long-range disordered atomic arrangement, it still holds short-range order and even middle-range order extending to 0.5 nm, as many zigzag carbon chains remain after electron beam irradiation.

Key words： Graphene      Quasi-2 dimensional amorphous structure      Electron beam irradiation      High resolution imaging      Electron diffraction      Atomic pair distribution function     
Received: 17 April 2012      Published: 09 May 2012
MSC2000:  O641  
  O766  
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The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60925003), Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2012CB932702), and Department of Energy, USA (DEFG02-01ER45923).
Corresponding Authors: CHEN Qing, ZUO Jian-Min     E-mail: qingchen@pku.edu.cn; jianzuo@illinois.edu
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RAN Ke, CHEN Qing, ZUO Jian-Min. Fabrication and Structure Characterization of Quasi-2-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon Structures. Acta Phys. Chim. Sin., 2012, 28(07): 1551-1555.

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