Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene nanoelectromechanical systems resonators

Singh, Vibhor ; Sengupta, Shamashis ; Solanki, Hari S ; Dhall, Rohan ; Allain, Adrien ; Dhara, Sajal ; Pant, Prita ; Deshmukh, Mandar M (2010) Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene nanoelectromechanical systems resonators Nanotechnology, 21 (16). p. 165204. ISSN 0957-4484

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165204

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165204

Abstract

We use suspended graphene electromechanical resonators to study the variation of resonant frequency as a function of temperature. Measuring the change in frequency resulting from a change in tension, from 300 to 30 K, allows us to extract information about the thermal expansion of monolayer graphene as a function of temperature, which is critical for strain engineering applications. We find that thermal expansion of graphene is negative for all temperatures between 300 and 30 K. We also study the dispersion, the variation of resonant frequency with DC gate voltage, of the electromechanical modes and find considerable tunability of resonant frequency, desirable for applications like mass sensing and RF signal processing at room temperature. With a lowering of temperature, we find that the positively dispersing electromechanical modes evolve into negatively dispersing ones. We quantitatively explain this crossover and discuss optimal electromechanical properties that are desirable for temperature-compensated sensors.

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