TY - JOUR
T1 - Wafer-scale few-layer graphene growth on Cu/Ni films for gas sensing applications
AU - Deokar, Geetanjali
AU - Casanova-Cháfer, Juan
AU - Rajput, Nitul S.
AU - Aubry, Cyril
AU - Llobet, Eduard
AU - Jouiad, Mustapha
AU - Da Costa, Pedro M. F. J.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): BAS/1/1346-01-01
Acknowledgements: This work was funded by the Masdar Institute (contract EX2016-000026) and KAUST (BAS/1/1346-01-01). We are thankful to Dr. Sozaraj Rasappa (Tampere University, Finland) for the patterned Si nanopillar substrate. GD is thankful to Leslie George (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi) for technical support. E.L. is supported by the Catalan Institution for research and Advanced Studies via the 2018 ICREA Academia Award, by MINECO and FEDER under grant no. TEC2015- 71663R and by AGAUR under grant no. 2017 SGR 418.
PY - 2019/11/27
Y1 - 2019/11/27
N2 - Pristine, few-layer graphene (FLG)/Si nanopillar assemblies are introduced as gas sensitive chemiresistors showing unprecedented sensitivity towards NO2 when operated at room temperature (25 °C) and in humid air. To achieve this, we first developed wafer-scale (∼50 cm2) FLG growth using sub-micrometer thick films of thermally evaporated Cu/Ni on a SiO2/Si substrate. The Ni film was deposited and annealed to induce the formation of a Cu-rich binary alloy. This alloy formation limited the inter-diffusion of Cu and SiO2, a phenomenon known to take place during the CVD growth of graphene on Cu/SiO2/Si. The as-grown high structural quality FLG was transferred, using a conventional wet chemical method, to lithographically patterned arrays of Si nanopillars (non-flat substrate). Testing of the FLG/Si assembly revealed a NO2 sensitivity that outperforms what is reported in the literature for pristine graphene. Overall, our growth and device fabrication work-flow demonstrate a way to design graphene-based gas sensing systems without incurring inconvenient processing steps such as metal foil etching, surface functionalization or particle loading.
AB - Pristine, few-layer graphene (FLG)/Si nanopillar assemblies are introduced as gas sensitive chemiresistors showing unprecedented sensitivity towards NO2 when operated at room temperature (25 °C) and in humid air. To achieve this, we first developed wafer-scale (∼50 cm2) FLG growth using sub-micrometer thick films of thermally evaporated Cu/Ni on a SiO2/Si substrate. The Ni film was deposited and annealed to induce the formation of a Cu-rich binary alloy. This alloy formation limited the inter-diffusion of Cu and SiO2, a phenomenon known to take place during the CVD growth of graphene on Cu/SiO2/Si. The as-grown high structural quality FLG was transferred, using a conventional wet chemical method, to lithographically patterned arrays of Si nanopillars (non-flat substrate). Testing of the FLG/Si assembly revealed a NO2 sensitivity that outperforms what is reported in the literature for pristine graphene. Overall, our growth and device fabrication work-flow demonstrate a way to design graphene-based gas sensing systems without incurring inconvenient processing steps such as metal foil etching, surface functionalization or particle loading.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/660592
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0925400519316570
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076011202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.snb.2019.127458
DO - 10.1016/j.snb.2019.127458
M3 - Article
SN - 0925-4005
VL - 305
SP - 127458
JO - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
JF - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
ER -