• 文献标题:   Fabrication of comb-drive actuators for straining nanostructured suspended graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GOLDSCHE M, VERBIEST GJ, KHODKOV T, SONNTAG J, DRIESCH NV, BUCA D, STAMPFER C
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, combdrive actuator, nanostructuring, lowtemperature compatible, strain control, charge carrier transport
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rhein Westfal TH Aachen
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/aacdec
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

We report on the fabrication and characterization of an optimized comb-drive actuator design for strain-dependent transport measurements on suspended graphene. We fabricate devices from highly p-doped silicon using deep reactive ion etching with a chromium mask. Crucially, we implement a gold layer to reduce the device resistance from approximate to 51.6 k Omega to approximate to 236 Omega at room temperature in order to allow for strain-dependent transport measurements. The graphene is integrated by mechanically transferring it directly onto the actuator using a polymethylmethacrylate membrane. Importantly, the integrated graphene can be nanostructured afterwards to optimize device functionality. The minimum feature size of the structured suspended graphene is 30 nm, which allows for interesting device concepts such as mechanically-tunable nanoconstrictions. Finally, we characterize the fabricated devices by measuring the Raman spectrum as well as the a mechanical resonance frequency of an integrated graphene sheet for different strain values.