• 文献标题:   Energy gap opening by crossing drop cast single-layer graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YAMADA TK, FUKUDA H, FUJIWARA T, LIU PL, NAKAMURA K, KASAI S, DE PARGA ALV, TANAKA H
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbon, scanning tunneling microscopy, cross structure, drop cast, energy gap
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chiba Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/aac36b
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Band gap opening of a single-layer graphene nanoribbon (sGNR) sitting on another sGNR, fabricated by drop casting GNR solution on Au(111) substrate in air, was studied by means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in an ultra-high vacuum at 78 K and 300 K. GNRs with a width of similar to 45 nm were prepared by unzipping double-walled carbon nanotubes (diameter similar to 15 nm) using the ultrasonic method. In contrast to atomically-flat GNRs fabricated via the bottom-up process, the drop cast sGNRs were buckled on Au(111), i.e., some local points of the sGNR are in contact with the substrate (d similar to 0.5 nm), but other parts float (d similar to 1-3 nm), where d denotes the measured distance between the sGNR and the substrate. In spite of the fact that the nanoribbons were buckled, dI/dV maps confirmed that each buckled sGNR had a metallic character (3.5 G(o)) with considerable uniform local density of states, comparable to a flat sGNR. However, when two sGNRs crossed each other, the crossed areas showed a band gap between -50 and +200 meV around the Fermi energy, i.e., the only upper sGNR electronic property changed from metallic to p-type semiconducting, which was not due to the bending, but the electronic interactions between the up and down sGNRs.