Graphene Microheater Chips for In Situ TEM.
Nano Lett
; 23(2): 726-734, 2023 Jan 25.
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ABSTRACT
Low-dimensional materials are bringing significant innovations to in situ TEM characterization. Here a new graphene microheater chip for TEM was developed by stacking graphene on a suspended SiNx membrane as the Joule heating element. It could be heated up to 800 °C within 26.31 ms with a low power consumption of 0.025 mW/1000 µm2. The bulging was only â¼50 nm at 650 °C, which is 2 orders of magnitude smaller than those of conventional MEMS heaters at similar temperatures. The performances benefit from the employment of graphene, since its monolayer structure greatly reduces the heat capacity, and the vdW contact significantly reduces the interfacial interaction. The TEM observation on the Sn melting process verifies its great potential in resolving thermodynamic processes. Moreover, more multifunctional in situ chips could be developed by integrating other stimuli to such chips. This work opens a new frontier for both graphene and in situ characterization techniques.
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