7.01 Roll-To-Roll Graphene Transfer microsystems technology laboratories Marek Hempel, Jing Kong, Tomas Palacios, [email protected] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Transferring CVD Graphene onto Flexible Substrates by Hot Lamination and Electrochemical Delamination 1. Goal and Applications: Use graphene to make flexible, conductive and transparent electrodes • Needed for optoelectronic and wearable applications, for example: 2. Background: • Graphene is nearly transparent, ultra strong and has an extremely high carrier mobility • This makes it a promising material to use as transparent conductive electrodes • Large areas can only be synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on Cu foil 8. Acknowledgement: This project was funded by eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center. 3. Approach: • Use pressure and heat to laminate graphene to target • Separate by hydrogen bubbles (use electrolysis) 5. Metrology: • Molding of copper foil texture highly visible on EVA • Dark field microscopy (DF) helps to visualize features Touch Screens Smart Windows Solar Cells Displays Challenge is to transfer graphene in a scalable way and with high quality 4. Implementation: Lamination • Use EVA coated PET as substrate • Temp. range of heat shoes: 90°– 250°C • Speed range of DC motors: 0.7 – 5 mm/s • Roller pressure ranges from: 0 – 400 N Delamination • Use sodium chloride (NaCl) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH) as electrolyte with 0.5 mol/l Hot lamination Electrochemical Delamination 6. Electrical Characterization and Doping 7. Repeated Lamination and Delamination DF 100x 477.1 175.7 4568.3 761.1 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 G on SiO2 G on SiO2 doped G on PET/EVA G on PET/EVA doped avg. sheet resistance [Ω/□] 1E+11 1E+12 1E+13 1E+14 200 2000 Carrier concentration [cm -2 ] mobility [cm 2 /Vs] 1L 1L doped 2L 2L doped 10000 10μm 1E+11 1E+12 1E+13 1E+14 200 2000 Carrier concentration [cm -2 ] mobility [cm 2 /Vs] G on SiO2 G on PET/EVA G on SiO2 doped G on EVA/PET dopted 10000 1L 1L doped 2L 2L doped sheet resistance [kΩ/□] 6.0x 4.9x 3.4x 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 • Stacking 2 graphene layers improves conductivity by 3.4x • This is more than expected increase of factor of 2x All rights reserved by Hempel, et al. Reproduced here with permission for educational purposes only.