Spray-on Liquid-Metal Electrodes for Graphene Field-Effect Transistors: History Edit

Advancements in flexible circuit interconnects are critical for widespread adoption of flexible electronics. Non-toxic liquid-metals offer a viable solution for flexible electrodes due to deformability and low bulk resistivity. Yet, fabrication processes utilizing liquid-metals suffer from high complexity, low throughput, and significant production cost. Our team utilized an inexpensive spray-on stencil technique to deposit liquid-metal Galinstan electrodes in top-gated graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs). The electrode stencils were patterned using an automated vinyl cutter and positioned directly onto chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene transferred to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. Our spray-on method exhibited a throughput of 28 transistors in under five minutes on the same graphene sample with a 96% yield for all devices down to a channel length of 50 um.. The fabricated transistors possess hole and electron mobilities of 663.5 cm2/(Vs) and 689.9 cm2/(Vs), respectively, and support a simple and effective method of developing high-yield flexible electronics.

  • Spray
  • Liquid-metal
  • graphene
  • Mask Deposition
  • galinstan
  • honey
  • GFET
  • carbon