Accurate graphene quantum Hall arrays for the new International System of Units

Hans He; Karin Cedergren; Naveen Shetty; Samuel Lara Avila; Sergey Kubatkin; T. Bergsten; Gunnar Eklund

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34680-0

Accurate graphene quantum Hall arrays for the new International System of Units
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Graphene quantum Hall effect (QHE) resistance standards have the potential to provide superior realizations of three key units in the new International System of Units (SI): the ohm, the ampere, and the kilogram (Kibble Balance). However, these prospects require different resistance values than practically achievable in single graphene devices (~12.9 kΩ), and they need bias currents two orders of magnitude higher than typical breakdown currents IC ~ 100 μA. Here we present experiments on quantization accuracy of a 236-element quantum Hall array (QHA), demonstrating RK/236 ≈ 109 Ω with 0.2 part-per-billion (nΩ/Ω) accuracy with IC ≥ 5 mA (~1 nΩ/Ω accuracy for IC = 8.5 mA), using epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (epigraphene). The array accuracy, comparable to the most precise universality tests of QHE, together with the scalability and reliability of this approach, pave the road for wider use of graphene in the new SI and beyond.

QHE

Graphene quantum hall effect

Quantum Hall array

Epitaxial graphene

QHA

Quantization accuracy

International System of Units