Evaluation of Surface Characteristics of Highly Oriented Pyrolitic Graphite

Abstract

Thanks to several outstanding optical and electrical qualities highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) is considered a promising material in nanostructures preparation process. It has been successfully employed in scanning probe microscopy technique as a material for calibration. This work characterizes the surfaces of graphite that went through a mechanical processing and their following usage as substrates for obtaining semiconducting thin films by deposition