Printed Graphene Circuits

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a transfer printing method for fabricating high-quality, transparent graphene electronic devices with preserved mobility and low contact resistance, enabling new applications and fundamental studies.

Contribution

It introduces a purely additive transfer printing technique for graphene, avoiding chemical and lithographic processes, enhancing control and reproducibility.

Findings

High mobility and low contact resistance in printed graphene devices

Transfer printing effectively transfers graphene from silicon dioxide to various substrates

Transport properties challenge existing theories of minimum conductivity

Abstract

we have fabricated transparent electronic devices based on graphene materials with thickness down to one single atomic layer by the transfer printing method. The resulting printed graphene devices retain high field effect mobility and have low contact resistance. The results show that the transfer printing method is capable of high-quality transfer of graphene materials from silicon dioxide substrates, and the method thus will have wide applications in manipulating and delivering graphene materials to desired substrate and device geometries. Since the method is purely additive, it exposes graphene (or other functional materials) to no chemical preparation or lithographic steps, providing greater experimental control over device environment for reproducibility and for studies of fundamental transport mechanisms. Finally, the transport properties of the graphene devices on the PET substrate demonstrate the non-universality of minimum conductivity and the incompleteness of the current transport theory.