journal article·2024-04Open access

Parafilm Enabled Rapid and Scalable Delamination/Integration of Graphene for High‐Performance Capacitive Touch Sensor

Santhosh Durairaj, Nasir Ali, Won Jong Yoo, S. Chandramohan, Changgu Lee

Advanced Engineering Materials· Volume 26· Issue 7

Abstract

The high electrical conductivity and bendability of graphene makes it versatile for flexible electronic sensor applications. The fabrication of such flexible sensors necessitates two important prerequisites: defect‐free transfer of graphene to a flexible substrate and creating appropriate patterns without altering graphene's inherent properties. Here, a potentially rapid and scalable method to delaminate graphene non‐destructively from a metal substrate by using flexible parafilm is reported. This method allows not only the scalable transfer of continuous graphene, but also the realization of graphene patterns on the parafilm substrate. Graphene on parafilm showed negligible doping effect with high room temperature carrier mobility exceeding 6 × 103 cm2 V−1 s−1 for a centimeter‐scale sample. Using parafilm as a substrate‐cum‐dielectric medium, a proof‐of‐concept capacitive touch sensor (CTS) arrays is demonstrated without the use of lithography, by simple cross‐assembling and mild heating. The graphene sensor thus realized in its simplistic device configuration had an enhanced sensitivity of 43% when touch and release cycles are performed on the device. The nearly non‐destructive and user‐friendly route for directly integrating graphene with a flexible substrate is expected to play a potential role in the design of graphene‐based flexible electronics.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors · Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

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Affiliations

School of Mechanical Engineering Sungkyunkwan University Suwon 16419 South Korea

2D Materials and Devices Laboratory Department of Physics and Nanotechnology Faculty of Engineering and Technology SRM Institute of Science and Technology Kattankulathur 603 203 India

SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) Sungkyunkwan University Suwon 16419 South Korea

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea · Samsung Science and Technology Foundation · Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University

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