Electronic and structural properties of graphene-based transparent and conductive thin film electrodes

• DOI: 10.1007/s00339-008-4931-2
• Publication Date: 2008-10-13T15:26:15Z
• Authors: A. Vollmer; X. L. Feng; X. Wang; L. J. Zhi; K. Müllen; N. Koch; J. P. Rabe
• Keywords: Pyrolytic carbon; Transparent conducting film; Graphite oxide

We demonstrate that graphene-based transparent and conductive thin films (GTCFs), fabricated by thermal reduction of graphite oxide, have very similar electronic structural properties as highly oriented pyrolytic (HOPG). Electron spectroscopy results suggest the GTCFs are also semi-metallic individual graphene sheets film predominantly parallel to substrate plane. These may therefore be considered a technologically relevant analogue HOPG electrodes, which cannot easily processed into films.