• 文献标题:   Ultrasensitive Room-Temperature Piezoresistive Transduction in Graphene-Based Nanoelectromechanical Systems
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BHASKARAN MKH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nems, piezorsistive sensing, zeptogram mass sensitivity, attonewton force sensitivity, room temperature nems
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Oxford
  • 被引频次:   29
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00129
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

The low mass and high quality factors that nanomechanical resonators exhibit lead to exceptional sensitivity in the frequency domain. This is especially appealing for the design of ultrasensitive force and mass sensors. The sensitivity of a nanomechanical mass and force sensor depends on its mass and quality factor; a low resonator mass and a higher quality factor reduce both the minimum resolvable mass and force. Graphene, a single atomic layer thick membrane is an ideal candidate for nanoelectromechanical resonators due to its extremely low mass and high stiffness. Here, we show that by employing the intrinsic piezoresistivity of graphene to transduce its motion in nanoelectromechanical systems, we approach a force resolution of 16.3 +/- 0.8 aN/Hz(1/2) and a minimum detectable mass of 1.41 +/- 0.02 zeptograms (10(-21) g) at ambient temperature. Quality factors of the driven response of the order of 10(3) at pressures similar to 10(-6) Torr on several devices are also observed. Moreover, we demonstrate this at ambient temperature on chemical-vapor-deposition-grown graphene to allow for scale-up, thus demonstrating its potential for applications requiring exquisite force and mass resolution such as mass spectroscopy and magnetic resonance force microscopy.