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http://dx.doi.org/10.7234/composres.2014.27.5.183

A Study on Image Analysis of Graphene Oxide Using Optical Microscopy  

Lee, Yu-Jin (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
Kim, Na-Ri (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
Yoon, Sang-Su (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
Oh, Youngsuk (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
Lee, Jea Uk (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
Lee, Wonoh (Korea Institute of Materials Science, Composites Research Center)
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Composites Research / v.27, no.5, 2014 , pp. 183-189 More about this Journal
Abstract
Experimental considerations have been performed to obtain the clear optical microscopic images of graphene oxide which are useful to probe its quality and morphological information such as a shape, a size, and a thickness. In this study, we investigated the contrast enhancement of the optical images of graphene oxide after hydrazine vapor reduction on a Si substrate coated with a 300 nm-thick $SiO_2$ dielectric layer. Also, a green-filtered light source gave higher contrast images comparing to optical images under standard white light. Furthermore, it was found that a image channel separation technique can be an alternative to simply identify the morphological information of graphene oxide, where red, green, and blue color values are separated at each pixels of the optical image. The approaches performed in this study can be helpful to set up a simple and easy protocol for the morphological identification of graphene oxide using a conventional optical microscope instead of a scanning electron microscopy or an atomic force microscopy.
Keywords
Graphene oxide; Optical microscopy; Si wafer; Hydrazine vapor reduction; Image channel separation;
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