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

Details Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene NEMS resonators Probing thermal expansion of graphene and modal dispersion at low-temperature using graphene NEMS resonators

2010-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4377v1

Nanotechnology 21, 165204 (2010).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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Scientific paper

10.1088/0957-4484/21/16/165204

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 K 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 300K and 30K. 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 lowering of temperature, we find that the positively dispersing electromechanical modes evolve to negatively dispersing ones. We quantitatively explain this crossover and discuss optimal electromechanical properties that are desirable for temperature compensated sensors.

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