Abstract
Improving the thermoelectric efficiency of a material requires a suitable ratio between electrical and thermal conductivity. Nanostructured graphene provides a possible route to improving thermoelectric efficiency. Bi-layer graphene was successfully prepared using pulsed laser deposition in this study. The size of graphene grains was controlled by adjusting the number of pulses. Raman spectra indicated that the graphene was bi-layer. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images clearly show that graphene changes from nanostructured to continuous films when more pulses are used during fabrication. Those results indicate that the size of the grains can be controlled between 39 and 182 nm. A detailed analysis of X-ray photoelectron spectra reveals that the sp2 hybrid state is the main chemical state in carbon. The mobility is significantly affected by the grain size in graphene, and there exists a relatively stable region between 500 and 800 pulses. The observed phenomena originate from competition between decreasing resistance and increasing carrier concentration. These studies should be valuable for regulating grains sizes for thermoelectric applications of graphene.
Highlights
With increasingly serious environmental pollution and an energy crisis, it is very important to reduce environmental pollution and convert waste heat into electrical energy
The primary reasons for those observed phenomena originate from the fact that it is difficult to use chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods to adjust the size of graphene nanograins
The preparation of graphene with controllable grain size is the key to expanding the applications of graphene, especially thermoelectric applications [18,19]
Summary
With increasingly serious environmental pollution and an energy crisis, it is very important to reduce environmental pollution and convert waste heat into electrical energy For this reason, it is necessary to find efficient thermoelectric conversion materials. Because pulsed laser deposition (PLD) can be used to controllably generate highly energetic carbon species [18,19,20,21,22], it has natural advantages in controlling graphene crystal grains. This method is suitable for adjusting the size of graphene grains. The growth process of bi-layer graphene grains could be sufficiently controlled
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