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Research Article | Open Access

Lithography-Free Fabrication of High Quality Substrate-Supported and Freestanding Graphene Devices

Wenzhong Bao1Gang Liu1Zeng Zhao1Hang Zhang1Dong Yan2Aparna Deshpande3Brian LeRoy3Chun Ning Lau1( )
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of CaliforniaRiverside, CA 92521 USA
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of CaliforniaRiverside, CA 92521 USA
Department of Physics, University of ArizonaTucson, AZ 85721 USA
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We present a lithography-free technique for fabrication of clean, high quality graphene devices. This technique is based on evaporation through hard Si shadow masks, and eliminates contaminants introduced by lithographical processes. We demonstrate that devices fabricated by this technique have significantly higher mobility values than those obtained by standard electron beam lithography. To obtain ultra-high mobility devices, we extend this technique to fabricate suspended graphene samples with mobilities as high as 120 000 cm2/(V·s).

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Cite this article:
Bao W, Liu G, Zhao Z, et al. Lithography-Free Fabrication of High Quality Substrate-Supported and Freestanding Graphene Devices. Nano Research, 2010, 3(2): 98-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-010-1013-5

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Received: 09 November 2009
Revised: 07 December 2009
Accepted: 08 December 2009
Published: 27 March 2010
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