Electrical Transport and Power Dissipation in Aerosol-Jet-Printed Graphene Interconnects
Twinkle Pandhi, Eric Kreit, Roberto Aga, Kiyo Fujimoto, Mohammad Taghi Sharbati, Samane Khademi, A. Nicole Chang, Feng Xiong, Jessica Koehne, Emily M. Heckman & David Estrada
Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 10842 (2018)
Abstract
This paper reports the first known investigation of power dissipation and electrical breakdown in aerosol-jet-printed (AJP) graphene interconnects. The electrical performance of aerosol-jet printed (AJP) graphene was characterized using the Transmission Line Method (TLM). The electrical resistance decreased with increasing printing pass number (n); the lowest sheet resistance measured was 1.5 kΩ/sq. for n = 50. The role of thermal resistance (RTH) in power dissipation was studied using a combination of electrical breakdown thermometry and infrared (IR) imaging. A simple lumped thermal model (ΔT=P×RTHΔT=P×RTH) and COMSOL Multiphysics was used to extract the total RTH, including interfaces. The RTH of AJP graphene on Kapton is ~27 times greater than that of AJP graphene on Al2O3 with a corresponding breakdown current density 10 times less on Kapton versus Al2O3.
