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Very large scale characterization of graphene mechanical devices using a colorimetry technique

Applied Physics 2018-05-07 v1

Abstract

We use a scalable optical technique to characterize more than 21000 circular nanomechanical devices made out of suspended single- and double-layer graphene on cavities with different diameters (DD) and depths (gg). To maximize the contrast between suspended and broken membranes we used a model for selecting the optimal color filter. The method enables parallel and automatized image processing for yield statistics. We find the survival probability to be correlated to a structural mechanics scaling parameter given by D4/g3D^4/g^3. Moreover, we extract a median adhesion energy of Γ=\Gamma = 0.9 J/m2^2 between the membrane and the native SiO2_2 at the bottom of the cavities.

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@article{arxiv.1805.01566,
  title  = {Very large scale characterization of graphene mechanical devices using a colorimetry technique},
  author = {Santiago Jose Cartamil-Bueno and Alba Centeno and Amaia Zurutuza and Peter Gerard Steeneken and Herre Sjoerd Jan van der Zant and Samer Houri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.01566},
  year   = {2018}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures