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Flexible graphene field effect transistor with ferroelectric polymer gate

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A transparent, flexible graphene field effect transistor (GFET) based on ferroelectric gate is demonstrated. In this device, the single layer graphene was fabricated by chemical vapor deposition method, and transferred to the polyethylene terephthalate substrate. Then the poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE)) ferroelectric polymer layer film was used as the gate dielectric for the graphene FET. Based on the P(VDF-TrFE)/graphene heterojunction FET, Hall Bar structure was fabricated. The transport properties of the graphene channel at low temperature and retention characteristics at different temperature are investigated in detail. These special properties indicated that the GFET might be useful for many particular applications, such as a non-volatile memories, flexible electronic devices and phototransistors.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program (Grant No. 2013CB922302), the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.61474131, 61440063, 61274107, 51472210 and 61404113), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (13JC1406000), the Key Project of Hunan Provincial NSFC (Grant No. 13JJ2023) and Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate (Grant Nos. CX2013B261 and CX2014B267).

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  1. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Key Film Materials and Application for Equipments, School of Material Sciences and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China

    Xudong Wang & Minghua Tang

  2. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Materials and Devices, School of Material Sciences and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China

    Xudong Wang & Minghua Tang

  3. National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500Yu Tian Road, Shanghai, 200083, China

    Xudong Wang, Yan Chen, Guangjian Wu, Hai Huang, Xiaolin Zhao, Bobo Tian, Jianlu Wang, Shuo Sun, Hong Shen, Tie Lin, Jinglan Sun, Xiangjian Meng & Junhao Chu

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Wang, X., Tang, M., Chen, Y. et al. Flexible graphene field effect transistor with ferroelectric polymer gate. Opt Quant Electron 48, 345 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-016-0614-y

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