Epitaxial growth of graphene on single crystal metal surfaces
Résumé
Epitaxial growth of graphene on metals is known for decades and encounters renewed interest since 2006-2007 when it was realized that graphene mass-production is a major hurdle in the development of graphene-based applications. With the help of model systems, i.e. prepared in clean conditions (ultra-high vacuum) and at clean surfaces (single-crystalline metallic ones) much progress has been done towards the understanding of graphene growth on metals, from the elementary processes governing growth towards the tayloring of the morphology of the graphene samples.