Drude conductivity exhibited by chemically synthesized reduced graphene oxide

作者：Younas Daniyal^*; Javed Qurat ul Ain; Fatima Sabeen; Kalsoom Riffat; Abbas Hussain; Khan Yaqoob

来源：Materials Research Express, 2017, 4(9): 095029.

DOI：10.1088/2053-1591/aa891f

• graphene
• reduced graphene oxide
• conductivity of graphene
• Drude conductivity
• dielectric properties of rGO
• rGO

Electrical conductance in graphene layers having Drude like response due to massless Dirac fermions have been well explained theoretically as well as experimentally. In this paper Drude like electrical conductivity response of reduced graphene oxide synthesized by chemical route is presented. A method slightly different from conventional methods is used to synthesize graphene oxide which is then converted to reduced graphene oxide. Various analytic techniques were employed to verify the successful oxidation and reductions in the process and were also used to measure various parameters like thickness of layers and conductivity. Obtained reduced graphene oxide has very thin layers of thickness around 13 nm on average and reduced graphene oxide has average thickness below 20 nm. Conductivity of the reduced graphene was observed to have Drude like response which is explained on basis of Drude model for conductors.

• 出版日期2017-9