• 文献标题:   Front-End-of-Line Integration of Graphene Oxide for Graphene-Based Electrical Platforms
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LU XL, MUNIEF WM, HEIB F, SCHMITT M, BRITZ A, GRANDTHYL S, MULLER F, NEUROHR JU, JACOBS K, BENIA HM, LANCHE R, PACHAURI V, HEMPELMANN R, INGEBRANDT S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide, lithography, reduced graphene oxide, thinfilm graphene oxide, waferscale production
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
  • ISSN:   2365-709X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Appl Sci Kaiserslautern
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1002/admt.201700318
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Scalable and routine integration of chemically exfoliated, graphene-based materials such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) into standard microelectronic fabrication is a tremendous technological challenge, blocking their advancement toward real applications. A unique approach for wafer-scale fabrication of rGO devices by a synergistic combination of chemically exfoliated GO with photolithography processing is realized. Using graphite powder as source material, a GO solution is produced in a newly optimized, low-temperature exfoliation and desalination protocol, resulting in high-quality GO and confirmed by various characterization techniques. As substrates, 4 in. Si/SiO2 or glass wafers were first silanized in a well-controlled, gas-phase procedure. Large-area GO thin films are then realized by standard spin-coating resulting in highly homogeneous, covalently bound layers of controllable thicknesses of 3-7 nm depending on the amount of spin-coatings. The robust thin films undergo routine photolithography for device fabrication, including reduction via thermal annealing into conductive rGO. The top-down fabricated rGO devices display high uniformity with electrical resistances varying within only one order of magnitude over wafer-scale and device yields as high as approximate to 93% on a wafer. The novel front-end-of-line GO integration protocol offers robust electrical performances for future implementation toward various sensor applications.