Probing the nature of defects in graphene by Raman spectroscopy.

Eckmann, Axel; Felten, Alexandre; Mishchenko, Artem; Britnell, Liam; Krupke, Ralph; Novoselov, Kostya S; Casiraghi, Cinzia · Nano Lett · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Raman spectroscopy is able to probe disorder in graphene through defect-activated peaks. It is of great interest to link these features to the nature of disorder. Here we present a detailed analysis of the Raman spectra of graphene containing different type of defects. We found that the intensity ratio of the D and D' peak is maximum (∼13) for sp(3)-defects, it decreases for vacancy-like defects (∼7), and it reaches a minimum for boundaries in graphite (∼3.5). This makes Raman Spectroscopy a powerful tool to fully characterize graphene.