Graphene Microheater Chips for <i>In Situ</i> TEM.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Low-dimensional materials are bringing significant innovations to <i><i>in situ</i></i> TEM characterization. Here a new graphene microheater chip for TEM was developed by stacking graphene on a suspended SiN<sub><i>x</i></sub> 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 μm<sup>2</sup>. The bulging was only ∼50 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 <i><i>in situ</i></i> chips could be developed by integrating other stimuli to such chips. This work opens a new frontier for both graphene and <i><i>in situ</i></i> characterization techniques.