# Large-scale Epitaxial Growth Kinetics of Graphene: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study

Source: [Large-scale Epitaxial Growth Kinetics of Graphene: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa324c1e209131ce886f78>)

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Authors: Huijun Jiang, Zhonghuai Hou

Published: 2015-06-15T03:23:20.000Z

## Abstract

Epitaxial growth via chemical vapor deposition is considered to be the most promising way towards synthesizing large area graphene with high quality. However, it remains a big theoretical challenge to reveal growth kinetics with atomically energetic and large-scale spatial information included. Here, we propose a minimal kinetic Monte Carlo model to address such an issue on an active catalyst surface with graphene/substrate lattice mismatch, which facilitates us to perform large scale simulations of the growth kinetics over two dimensional surface with growth fronts of complex shapes. A geometry-determined large-scale growth mechanism is revealed, where the rate-dominating event is found to be $C\_{1}$-attachment for concave growth front segments and $C\_{5}$-attachment for others. This growth mechanism leads to an interesting time-resolved growth behavior which is well consistent with that observed in a recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiment.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04469>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04469.pdf>)