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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031006
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- FCRP Center on Functional Engineering Nano Architectonics (FENA)
- U.S. NSF [DMR-0804567]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1206930] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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At low temperatures, the electron gas of graphene is expected to show both very weak coupling to thermal baths and rapid thermalization, properties which are desirable for use as a sensitive bolometer. We demonstrate an ultrasensitive, wide-bandwidth measurement scheme based on Johnson noise to probe the thermal-transport and thermodynamic properties of the electron gas of graphene, with a resolution of 2 mK/root Hz and a bandwidth of 80 MHz. We have measured the electron-phonon coupling directly through energy transport, from 2-30 K and at a charge density of 2 x 10(11) cm(-2). We demonstrate bolometric mixing and utilize this effect to sense temperature oscillations with a period of 430 ps and determine the heat capacity of the electron gas to be 2 x 10(-21) J/(K . mu m(2)) at 5 K, which is consistent with that of a two-dimensional Dirac electron gas. These measurements suggest that graphene-based devices, together with wide-bandwidth noise thermometry, can generate substantial advances in the areas of ultrasensitive bolometry, calorimetry, microwave and terahertz photo-detection, and bolometric mixing for applications in fields such as observational astronomy and quantum information and measurement.
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