@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00047972, author = {Yamaguchi, Hisato and Ogawa, Shuichi and Watanabe, Daiki and Hozumi, Hideaki and Gao, Yongqian and Eda, Goki and Mattevi, Cecilia and Fujita, Takeshi and Yoshigoe, Akitaka and Ishizuka, Shinji and Adamska, Lyudmyla and Yamada, Takatoshi and M., Dattelbaum Andrew and Gupta, Gautam and K., Doorn Stephen and A., Velizhanin Kirill and Teraoka, Yuden and Chen, Mingwei and Htoon, Han and Chhowalla, Manish and D., Mohite Aditya and Takakuwa, Yuji and 寺岡 有殿}, issue = {9}, journal = {Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science}, month = {Feb}, note = {We report valence-band electronic structure evolution of graphene oxide (GO) upon its thermal reduction. The degree of oxygen functionalization was controlled by annealing temperature, and an electronic structure evolution was monitored using real-time ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. We observed a drastic increase in the density of states around the Fermi level upon thermal annealing at 600℃. The result indicates that while there is an apparent bandgap for GO prior to a thermal reduction, the gap closes after an annealing around that temperature. This trend of bandgap closure was correlated with the electrical, chemical, and structural properties to determine a set of GO material properties that is optimal for optoelectronics. The results revealed that annealing at a temperature of 500℃ leads to the desired properties, demonstrated by a uniform and an order of magnitude enhanced photocurrent map of an individual GO sheet compared to an as-synthesized counterpart.}, pages = {2380--2386}, title = {Valence-band electronic structure evolution of graphene oxide upon thermal annealing for optoelectronics}, volume = {213}, year = {2017} }