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Macroscopic properties of single-crystalline and polycrystalline graphene on soft substrate for transparent electrode applications
Author
Ji Soo Roh
Co-author
Jun Kyu Jang, Nayoung Kwon, Shingyu Bok, Yu Jin Kim, Cheolho Jeon, Hee Wook Yoon, Hyo Won Kim, Byungkwon Lim, Ho Bum Park*
Journal
Carbon
Vol
178
Page
181-189
Year
2021
Large-area graphene synthesized by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method is promising for a flexible, stretchable transparent electrode but suffers from structural defects such as grain boundaries, which causes to degrade its physical properties. Recently, preparation methods of large-scale growth templates for single-crystalline graphene (SCG) were reported, but the macroscopic properties of SCG have not been adequately examined yet. Here, an SCG-based flexible, stretchable graphene transparent electrode is successfully demonstrated, which shows superior optoelectrical, electromechanical, and barrier properties compared to polycrystalline graphene (PCG)-based transparent electrodes. The result exhibits the grain boundary effect of graphene on soft substrates on a macroscopic scale and a great promise toward realizing a tremendous performance improvement of graphene-based flexible transparent electrodes on a large scale.