• 文献标题:   Imaging Reconfigurable Molecular Concentration on a Graphene Field-Effect Transistor
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIOU F, TSAI HZ, AIKAWA AS, NATIVIDAD KC, TANG E, HA E, RISS A, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, LISCHNER J, ZETTL A, CROMMIE MF
  • 作者关键词:   fermi level pinning, graphene fieldeffect device, molecular electronic, gatetunable adsorbate
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03039 EA OCT 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The spatial arrangement of adsorbates deposited onto a clean surface under vacuum typically cannot be reversibly tuned. Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy to demonstrate that molecules deposited onto graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) exhibit reversible, electrically tunable surface concentration. Continuous gate-tunable control over the surface concentration of charged F(4)TCNQ molecules was achieved on a graphene FET at T = 4.5K. This capability enables the precisely controlled impurity doping of graphene devices and also provides a new method for determining molecular energy level alignment based on the gate-dependence of molecular concentration. Gate-tunable molecular concentration is explained by a dynamical molecular rearrangement process that reduces total electronic energy by maintaining Fermi level pinning in the device substrate. The molecular surface concentration is fully determined by the device back-gate voltage, its geometric capacitance, and the energy difference between the graphene Dirac point and the molecular LUMO level.