• 文献标题:   Titanium contacts to graphene: process-induced variability in electronic and thermal transport
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FREEDY KM, GIRI A, FOLEY BM, BARONE MR, HOPKINS PE, MCDONNELL S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, vacuum deposition, contact resistance, thermal boundary conductance, xray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermal transport, interface chemistry
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Virginia
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/aaaacd
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Contact resistance (RC) is a major limiting factor in the performance of graphene devices. RC is sensitive to the quality of the interface and the composition of the contact, which are affected by the graphene transfer process and contact deposition conditions. In this work, a linear correlation is observed between the composition of Ti contacts, characterized by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and the Ti/graphene contact resistance measured by the transfer length method. We find that contact composition is tunable via deposition rate and base pressure. Reactor base pressure is found to effect the resultant contact resistance. The effect of contact deposition conditions on thermal transport measured by time-domain thermoreflectance is also reported. Interfaces with higher oxide composition appear to result in a lower thermal boundary conductance. Possible origins of this thermal boundary conductance change with oxide composition are discussed.