Graphene Lab Report

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Contents Page No. Abstract Contents List of figures List of tables 1. Introduction 1.1. Graphene 1.1.1 Origin of Graphene 1.1.2 Properties of Graphene 1.1.3 Free standing and substrate based Graphene 1.1.4 Production techniques of Graphene 1.1.5 Objective of our production of Graphene 1.2. Laser 1.2.1 Introduction to laser 1.2.2 Laser matter interaction 1.2.3 Laser treatment generally used 1.2.4 Objective of our choice of laser and laser treatment 1.3. Nickel substrate 1.3.1 Properties of Nickel 1.3.2 Reason for selecting nickel substrate 2. Literature survey 2.1. Production techniques of Graphene 2.1.1. Top down method 2.1.2. Bottom up method 2.2. Laser used to prepare Graphene 2.2.1. Free…show more content…
1.1.2. Properties of Graphene:  Electronic properties: The extraordinary electronic properties of graphene are due to its highly mobile pi electrons which are located above and below graphene sheet. The pi orbital’s overlap to enhance carbon to carbon bonding. The electronic properties of graphene are dictated by bonding and anti-bonding (valence and conduction bands) of these pi orbital’s [2]. At the dirac point in graphene electrons and holes have zero effective mass due to the linear relation between energy and movement at low energies. Thus electronic mobility of graphene is very high more than that of silver.  Mechanical properties: Another of graphene’s stand-out properties is its inherent strength. Due to the strength of its 0.142 nm-long carbon bonds, graphene is the strongest material ever discovered, with an ultimate tensile strength of 130,000,000,000 Pascals which is four times strength of structural steel [3]. It is also very light at 0.77milligrams per square metre (for comparison purposes, 1 square metre of paper is roughly 1000 times heavier). It is often said that a single sheet of graphene (being only 1 atom thick), sufficient in size enough to cover a whole football field, would weigh under 1 single…show more content…
A suspension of photoresist S-1805 and thinner is takem at 1:6 volume ratioand spin coated on quartz wafer at 10,000 rpm to get 30nm thickness of film. The coated wafers are then baked for 5minutes at 120 0C. then the piece is covered by another piece of quartz wafer and then mounted inside the vaccum chamber. The chamber is pumped with high purity N2 gas at 0.1 Torr pressure. Then a A continuous wave (CW) Nd:YAG laser with a wavelength of 532nm is focused on the film through transparent quartz. Similar mechanism as the silicon wafer, graphene is frown here. The carbon atoms get decomposed from the photoresist and dissolve into the wafer which then come out as the quartz cools and forms as graphene on the surface. The graphene was produced with a laser power of 2.8W, irradiated for 3–5

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