Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al 2 O 3 oxides

  • Murthada Adewole
  • , Jingbiao Cui
  • , David Lowell
  • , Safaa Hassan
  • , Yan Jiang
  • , Abhay Singh
  • , Jun Ding
  • , Hualiang Zhang
  • , Usha Philipose
  • , Yuankun Lin*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Graphene has been used as an electrically tunable material for switchable devices. A large area fabrication of Al-doped ZnO/Al 2 O 3 /graphene/Al 2 O 3 /gold/silicon device was enabled by a spin-processible hydrophilic mono-layer graphene oxide. The graphene was obtained directly from graphene oxide during the atomic layer deposition without other extra steps. A significant shift of Raman frequency up to 360 cm -1 was observed from graphene in the fabricated device, indicating a structural change in graphene. The absorption from the device was tunable with a negative voltage applied on the Al-doped ZnO side. The generated absorption change was sustainable when the voltage was off and erasable when a positive voltage was applied. The sustainability of tuned optical property in the graphene under investigation can lead to a design of device with less power consumption and many other applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1095-1104
Number of pages10
JournalOptical Materials Express
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2019

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