• 文献标题:   Advances in the fabrication of graphene transistors on flexible substrates
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FISICHELLA G, LO VERSO S, DI MARCO S, VINCIGUERRA V, SCHILIRO E, DI FRANCO S, LO NIGRO R, ROCCAFORTE F, ZURUTUZA A, CENTENO A, RAVESI S, GIANNAZZO F
  • 作者关键词:   atomic layer deposition, chemical sensing, field effect transistor, flexible electronic, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   2190-4286
  • 通讯作者地址:   IMM
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.3762/bjnano.8.50
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is an ideal candidate for next generation applications as a transparent electrode for electronics on plastic due to its flexibility and the conservation of electrical properties upon deformation. More importantly, its field-effect tunable carrier density, high mobility and saturation velocity make it an appealing choice as a channel material for field-effect transistors (FETs) for several potential applications. As an example, properly designed and scaled graphene FETs (Gr-FETs) can be used for flexible high frequency (RF) electronics or for high sensitivity chemical sensors. Miniaturized and flexible Gr-FET sensors would be highly advantageous for current sensors technology for in vivo and in situ applications. In this paper, we report a wafer-scale processing strategy to fabricate arrays of back-gated Gr-FETs on poly(ethylene naphthalate) (PEN) substrates. These devices present a large-area graphene channel fully exposed to the external environment, in order to be suitable for sensing applications, and the channel conductivity is efficiently modulated by a buried gate contact under a thin Al2O3 insulating film. In order to be compatible with the use of the PEN substrate, optimized deposition conditions of the Al2O3 film by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD) at a low temperature (100 degrees C) have been developed without any relevant degradation of the final dielectric performance.