• 文献标题:   Thermal Stability of Epitaxial Graphene Electrodes for Conductive Polymer Nanofiber Devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KIM KH, LARAAVILA S, HE H, KANG H, PARK YW, YAKIMOVA R, KUBATKIN S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, graphene electrode, epitaxial graphene on sic, polymer nanofiber, polyaniline nanofiber, carbonization, organic electronic, carbon electronic
  • 出版物名称:   CRYSTALS
  • ISSN:   2073-4352
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chalmers Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.3390/cryst7120378
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We used large area, monolayer graphene epitaxially grown on SiC (0001) as contact electrodes for polymer nanofiber devices. Our fabrication process, which avoids polymer resist residues on the graphene surface, results in graphene-polyaniline nanofiber devices with Ohmic contacts and electrical conductivity comparable to that of Au-nanofiber devices. We further checked the thermal stability of the graphene contacts to polyaniline devices by annealing up to T = 800 degrees C, the temperature at which polyaniline nanofibers are carbonized but the graphene electrode remains intact. The thermal stability and Ohmic contact of polymer nanofibers are demonstrated here, which together with the chemical stability and atomic flatness of graphene, make epitaxial graphene on SiC an attractive contact material for future all-carbon electronic devices.