Nanomaterials, Vol. 13, Pages 1103: Nanoelectromechanical Temperature Sensor Based on Piezoresistive Properties of Suspended Graphene Film

Nanomaterials, Vol. 13, Pages 1103: Nanoelectromechanical Temperature Sensor Based on Piezoresistive Properties of Suspended Graphene Film

Nanomaterials doi: 10.3390/nano13061103

Authors: Shuqi Han Siyuan Zhou Linyu Mei Miaoli Guo Huiyi Zhang Qiannan Li Shuai Zhang Yaokai Niu Yan Zhuang Wenping Geng Kaixi Bi Xiujian Chou

The substrate impurities scattering will lead to unstable temperature-sensitive behavior and poor linearity in graphene temperature sensors. And this can be weakened by suspending the graphene structure. Herein, we report a graphene temperature sensing structure, with suspended graphene membranes fabricated on the cavity and non-cavity SiO2/Si substrate, using monolayer, few-layer, and multilayer graphene. The results show that the sensor provides direct electrical readout from temperature to resistance transduction by the nano piezoresistive effect in graphene. And the cavity structure can weaken the substrate impurity scattering and thermal resistance effect, which results in better sensitivity and wide-range temperature sensing. In addition, monolayer graphene is almost no temperature sensitivity. And the few-layer graphene temperature sensitivity, lower than that of the multilayer graphene cavity structure (3.50%/°C), is 1.07%/°C. This work demonstrates that piezoresistive in suspended graphene membranes can effectively enhance the sensitivity and widen the temperature sensor range in NEMS temperature sensors.