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Magnetic field detection limits for ultraclean graphene Hall sensors

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

B.T. Schaefer
L. Wang
A. Jarjour
K. Watanabe
T. Taniguchi
P.L. McEuen
K.C. Nowack

Abstract

Solid-state magnetic field sensors are important for applications in commercial electronics and fundamental materials research. Most magnetic field sensors function in a limited range of temperature and magnetic field, but Hall sensors in principle operate over a broad range of these conditions. Here, we evaluate ultraclean graphene as a material platform for high-performance Hall sensors. We fabricate micrometer-scale devices from graphene encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride and few-layer graphite. We optimize the magnetic field detection limit under different conditions. At 1 kHz for a 1 μm device, we estimate a detection limit of 700 nT Hz−1/2 at room temperature, 80 nT Hz−1/2 at 4.2 K, and 3 μT Hz−1/2 in 3 T background field at 4.2 K. Our devices perform similarly to the best Hall sensors reported in the literature at room temperature, outperform other Hall sensors at 4.2 K, and demonstrate high performance in a few-Tesla magnetic field at which the sensors exhibit the quantum Hall effect. © 2020, The Author(s).

Date Published

Journal

Nature Communications

Volume

11

Issue

1

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089669806&doi=10.1038%2fs41467-020-18007-5&partnerID=40&md5=5b4d81c1aa0526ffc6017e84fb6ed7f9

DOI

10.1038/s41467-020-18007-5

Group (Lab)

Katja Nowack Group

Funding Source

DMR-1719875
1542081
1719875
NNCI-1542081
JPMJCR15F3

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