Surface conductance of graphene from non-contact resonant cavity

Published

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Caglar Dogu Emiroglu, Oleg A. Kirillov, Yanfei Yang, Randolph E. Elmquist

Abstract

A method is established to reliably determine surface conductance of single-layer or multi-layer atomically thin nano-carbon graphene structures. These can be synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), epitaxial growth on silicon carbide (SiC), obtained from reduced graphene oxide (rGO) or mechanically exfoliated from graphite. The measurements are made in an air filled standard WR-90 rectangular waveguide configuration at one of the resonant frequency modes, typically at 7 GHz. Surface conductance measurement involves monitoring a change in the quality factor of the cavity as the specimen is progressively inserted into the cavity in quantitative correlation with the specimen surface area. The specimen consists of a nano-carbon-layer supported on a low loss dielectric substrate. The thickness of the conducting nano-carbon layer does not need to be explicitly known, but it is assumed that the lateral dimension is uniform over the specimen area. The non-contact surface conductance measurements are illustrated for CVD graphene and epitaxial graphene. We compare these non-contact results with longitudinal resistance of mono graphene layers formed by sublimation of Si on SiC (0001) wafers.

Citation

Measurement

Volume

87

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Journals

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Keywords

graphene, surface conductance, microwave cavity

Citation

Obrzut, J. , , C. , Kirillov, O. , Yang, Y. and Elmquist, R. (2016), Surface conductance of graphene from non-contact resonant cavity, Measurement, [online], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2016.03.02 (Accessed April 24, 2024)