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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866338
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- NRI SWAN program
- NSF NASCENT ERC
- NSF NNIN program
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We investigate poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as a low thermal budget organic gate dielectric for graphene field effect-transistors (GFETs) based on a simple process flow. We show that high temperature baking steps above the glass transition temperature (similar to 130 degrees C) can leave a self-assembled, thin PMMA film on graphene, where we get a gate dielectric almost for free without additional atomic layer deposition type steps. Electrical characterization of GFETs with PMMA as a gate dielectric yields a dielectric constant of k = 3.0. GFETs with thinner PMMA dielectrics have a lower dielectric constant due to decreased polarization arising from neutralization of dipoles and charged carriers as baking temperatures increase. The leakage through PMMA gate dielectric increases with decreasing dielectric thickness and increasing electric field. Unlike conventional high-k gate dielectrics, such low-k organic gate dielectrics are potentially attractive for devices such as the proposed Bilayer pseudoSpin Field-Effect Transistor or flexible high speed graphene electronics. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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