A fast and sensitive room-temperature graphene nanomechanical bolometer

Andrew Blaikie; David Miller; Benjamín J. Alemán

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12562-2

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

A fast and sensitive room-temperature graphene nanomechanical bolometer

Andrew Blaikie,
David Miller,
Benjamín J. Alemán

Affiliations

Andrew Blaikie: Department of Physics, University of Oregon
David Miller: Department of Physics, University of Oregon
Benjamín J. Alemán: Department of Physics, University of Oregon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12562-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Bolometers are highly sensitive instruments that can detect radiant energy. Here, authors report micro-bolometers based on suspended graphene nano-electromechanical membranes that can detect light at room-temperature with a NEP coefficient of 2 pW/Hz^1/2 and bandwidth up to 1.3 MHz.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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