Electromechanical sensing of substrate charge hidden under atomic 2D crystals

Nano Lett. 2014 Jun 11;14(6):3400-4. doi: 10.1021/nl500922h. Epub 2014 May 27.

Abstract

The functionality of graphene and other two-dimensional materials in electronic devices is highly influenced by the film-substrate charge transfer affecting local carrier density. We demonstrate that charges buried under the few layer graphene on/in the insulating substrate can be detected using electromechanical actuation of the conductive atomically thin layers, allowing measurements of areal density of film-substrate transferred charges under few layer graphene and MoS2 suspended films.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't