Compact mid-infrared graphene thermopile enabled by a nanopatterning technique of electrolyte gates
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Peng, Cheng
Nanot, Sebastien
Shiue, Ren-Jye
Grosso, Gabriele
Yang, Yafang
Hempel, Marek
Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo
Kong, Jing
Koppens, Frank H L
Efetov, Dmitri K
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August 2018
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New Journal of Physics
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IOP Publishing
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Peng, Cheng et al. “Compact Mid-Infrared Graphene Thermopile Enabled by a Nanopatterning Technique of Electrolyte Gates.” New Journal of Physics 20, 8 (August 2018): 083050 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A central challenge in making two-dimensional (2D) material-based devices faster, smaller, and more efficient is to control their charge carrier density at the nanometer scale. Traditional gating techniques based on capacitive coupling through a gate dielectric cannot generate strong and uniform electric fields at this scale due to divergence of the fields in dielectrics. This field divergence limits the gating strength, boundary sharpness, and minimum feature size of local gates, precluding certain device concepts (such as plasmonics and metamaterials based on spatial charge density variation) and resulting in large device footprints. Here we present a nanopatterned electrolyte gating concept that allows locally creating excess charges by combining electrolyte gating with an ion-impenetrable e-beam-defined resist mask. Electrostatic simulations indicate high carrier density variations of Δn ∼ 1014 cm-2 across a length of only 15 nm at the mask boundaries on the surface of a 2D conductor. We implement this technique using cross-linked poly(methyl methacrylate), experimentally prove its ion-impenetrability and demonstrate e-beam patterning of the resist mask down to 30 nm half-pitch resolution. The spatial versatility enables us to demonstrate a compact mid-infrared graphene thermopile with a geometry optimized for Gaussian incident radiation. The thermopile has a small footprint despite the number of thermocouples in the device, paving the way for more compact high-speed thermal detectors and cameras.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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