• 文献标题:   Gate-Free Hydrogel-Graphene Transistors as Underwater Microphones
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI SC, ZHENG JL, YAN J, WU ZJ, ZHOU Q, TAN L
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, hydrogel, electric double layer, transistor, acoustic
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244
  • 通讯作者地址:   Dalian Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.8b14034
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

A perfect impedance match from water-rich hydrogels to an oceanic background makes hydrogel microphones ideal for long-distance, underwater acoustic reception with zero reflection. A novel hydrogel-graphene transistor is thus designed to work under a gate-free mode, in which a sheet of graphene directly converts mechanical vibrations from a microstructured hydrogel into electrical current. This work shows that the quantum capacitance of graphene plays an important role in determining the shift of the Fermi level in graphene and subsequently the amplitude of the current signal. Once employed underwater, this device provides a response to sound waves with high stability, low noise, and high sensitivity in a much-needed low-frequency domain.