• 文献标题:   Ultrasensitive N-Channel Graphene Gas Sensors by Nondestructive Molecular Doping
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KWON B, BAE H, LEE H, KIM S, HWANG J, LIM H, LEE JH, CHO K, YE J, LEE S, LEE WH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, gas sensor, nchannel, gatefree, molecular doping, sensitivity
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
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  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.1c08186
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Sensitive and selective detection of target gases is the ultimate goal for commercialization of graphene gas sensors. Here, ultrasensitive n-channel graphene gas sensors were developed by using n-doped graphene with ethylene amines The exposure of the n-doped graphene to oxidizing gases such as NO 2 leads to a current decrease that depends strongly on the number of amine functional groups in various types of ethylene amines Graphene doped with diethylenetriamine (DETA) exhibits the highest response, recovery, and long-term sensing stability to NO2, with an average detection limit of 0.83 parts per quadrillion (ppq, 10(-15)), due to the attractive electrostatic interaction between electron-rich graphene and electron-deficient NO2. Our first-principles calculation supported a preferential adsorption of NO2 on n-doped graphene. In addition, gas molecules on the n-channel graphene provide charged impurities, thereby intensifying the current decrease for an excellent response to oxidizing gases such as NO2 or SO2. On the contrary, absence of such a strong interaction between NH3 and DETA-doped graphene and combined effects of current increase by n-doping and mobility decrease by charged impurities result in a completely no response to NH3. Because the n-channel is easily induced by a top-molecular dopant, a flexible graphene sensor with outstanding NO2 detection capability was successfully fabricated on plastic without vertical stacks of gate-electrode and gate-dielectric. Our gate-free graphene gas sensors enabled by nondestructive molecular ndoping could be used for the selective detection of subppq-level NO2 in a gas mixture with reducing gases.