Monitoring dopants by Raman scattering in an electrochemically top-gated graphene transistor

Das, A and Pisana, S and Chakraborty, B and Piscanec, S and Saha, SK and Waghmare, UV and Novoselov, KS and Krishnamurthy, HR and Geim, AK and Ferrari, AC and Sood, AK (2008) Monitoring dopants by Raman scattering in an electrochemically top-gated graphene transistor. In: Nature Nanotechnology, 3 (4). pp. 210-215.

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Abstract

The recent discovery of graphene has led to many advances in two-dimensional physics and devices. The graphene devices fabricated so far have relied on $SiO_2$ back gating. Electrochemical top gating is widely used for polymer transistors, and has also been successfully applied to carbon nanotubes. Here we demonstrate a top-gated graphene transistor that is able to reach doping levels of up to $5\times 10^{13} cm^{-2}$, which is much higher than those previously reported. Such high doping levels are possible because the nanometre-thick Debye layer in the solid polymer electrolyte gate provides a much higher gate capacitance than the commonly used $SiO_2$ back gate, which is usually about 300 nm thick. In situ Raman measurements monitor the doping. The G peak stiffens and sharpens for both electron and hole doping, but the 2D peak shows a different response to holes and electrons. The ratio of the intensities of the G and 2D peaks shows a strong dependence on doping, making it a sensitive parameter to monitor the doping.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Nature Nanotechnology
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Nature Publishing Group.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	03 May 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:44
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/13803

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