Electrostatic force microscopy and electrical isolation of etched few-layer graphene nano-domains

D. Patrick Hunley, Abhishek Sundararajan, Mathias J. Boland, Douglas R. Strachan

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Abstract

Nanostructured bi-layer graphene samples formed through catalytic etching are investigated with electrostatic force microscopy. The measurements and supporting computations show a variation in the microscopy signal for different nano-domains that are indicative of changes in capacitive coupling related to their small sizes. Abrupt capacitance variations detected across etch tracks indicates that the nano-domains have strong electrical isolation between them. Comparison of the measurements to a resistor-capacitor model indicates that the resistance between two bi-layer graphene regions separated by an approximately 10 nm wide etch track is greater than about 1 × 10 12 Ω with a corresponding gap resistivity greater than about 3 × 10 14 Ω · nm. This extremely large gap resistivity suggests that catalytic etch tracks within few-layer graphene samples are sufficient for providing electrical isolation between separate nano-domains that could permit their use in constructing atomically thin nanogap electrodes, interconnects, and nanoribbons.

Original languageEnglish
Article number243109
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume105
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2014

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