Direct combination of carbon structure with optoelectronics crystal: thermal behavior of implanted carbon in lithium niobate crystal at near surface

• Published in: Materials research express 2020-02, Vol.7 (2), p.25030
• Main Authors: Xu, Yuhang, Lu, Fei, Liu, Kaijing, Ma, Changdong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Annealing; Carbon; Crystal structure; Graphene; Ion implantation; ions implantation; lithium niobate; Lithium niobates; Optoelectronics; Parameters; thermal motion; Thermodynamic properties
• ISSN: 2053-1591; 2053-1591
• DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/ab71cc

The thermal motion mechanism of carbon (C) in lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal was briefly studied, which provides experience and direction for the experimental parameters of graphene production by direct implantation of carbon ions into LiNbO3. Thin-film LiNbO3 crystal and bulk LiNbO3 crystal of z-cut were direct implanted by carbon ions with a dose of 1.14 × 1016 cm−2 and then annealed at different temperatures, thin-film LiNbO3 at 700 °C and bulk LiNbO3 at 900 °C. The experimental conditions and parameters of ion implantation and annealing were all the same except the annealing temperature. The samples were characterized by RBS, XRD, EDS and Raman spectrum. The results show that during annealing, the implanted carbon ions aggregate into clusters while moving towards the surface. This behavior prevents the carbon ions from precipitating on the LiNbO3 surface, which is not conducive to the production of graphene. The formation of graphene on LiNbO3 surface by direct ion implantation can only occur when implanted C dose and annealing temperature lie in a specific range.