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Boschi A, Kovtun A, Liscio F, Xia Z, Kim KH, Avila SL, De Simone S, Mussi V, Barone C, Pagano S, Gobbi M, Samorì P, Affronte M, Candini A, Palermo V, Liscio A. Mesoscopic 3D Charge Transport in Solution-Processed Graphene-Based Thin Films: A Multiscale Analysis. Small 2023; 19:e2303238. [PMID: 37330652 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202303238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Graphene and related 2D material (GRM) thin films consist of 3D assembly of billions of 2D nanosheets randomly distributed and interacting via van der Waals forces. Their complexity and the multiscale nature yield a wide variety of electrical characteristics ranging from doped semiconductor to glassy metals depending on the crystalline quality of the nanosheets, their specific structural organization ant the operating temperature. Here, the charge transport (CT) mechanisms are studied that are occurring in GRM thin films near the metal-insulator transition (MIT) highlighting the role of defect density and local arrangement of the nanosheets. Two prototypical nanosheet types are compared, i.e., 2D reduced graphene oxide and few-layer-thick electrochemically exfoliated graphene flakes, forming thin films with comparable composition, morphology and room temperature conductivity, but different defect density and crystallinity. By investigating their structure, morphology, and the dependence of their electrical conductivity on temperature, noise and magnetic-field, a general model is developed describing the multiscale nature of CT in GRM thin films in terms of hopping among mesoscopic bricks, i.e., grains. The results suggest a general approach to describe disordered van der Waals thin films.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alex Boschi
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, (CNR-ISOF), via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, IIT - CNI, Laboratorio NEST, piazza S. Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, (CNR-ISOF), via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, (CNR-IMM) - Bologna Unit, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, (CNR-ISOF), via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
- Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Kemivägen 9, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden
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- Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Kemivägen 9, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden
- Physics Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Kemivägen 9, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden
| | - Sara De Simone
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, (CNR-IMM) - Roma Unit, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, 00133, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, (CNR-IMM) - Lecce Unit, SP Lecce-Monteroni km 1,200, Lecce, 73100, Italy
| | - Valentina Mussi
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, (CNR-IMM) - Roma Unit, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, 00133, Italy
| | - Carlo Barone
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, Fisciano, SA, 84084, Italy
- CNR-SPIN Salerno and INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, c/o Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, 84084, Italy
| | - Sergio Pagano
- Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, Fisciano, SA, 84084, Italy
- CNR-SPIN Salerno and INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, c/o Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, SA, 84084, Italy
| | - Marco Gobbi
- CIC nanoGUNE, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia - San Sebastian, E-20018, Spain
| | - Paolo Samorì
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, Strasbourg, 67000, France
| | - Marco Affronte
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche (FIM), via Giuseppe Campi 213/a, Modena, 41125, Italy
| | - Andrea Candini
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, (CNR-ISOF), via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, (CNR-ISOF), via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy
| | - Andrea Liscio
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, (CNR-IMM) - Roma Unit, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, 00133, Italy
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