• 文献标题:   Correlating Atomic Structure and Transport in Suspended Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   QI ZJ, RODRIGUEZMANZO JA, BOTELLOMENDEZ AR, HONG SJ, STACH EA, PARK YW, CHARLIER JC, DRNDIC M, JOHNSON ATC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, electronic transport propertie, transmission electron microscopy, graphene nanoribbon, nanofabrication, graphene point contact
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Seoul Natl Univ
  • 被引频次:   41
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl501872x
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising candidates for next generation integrated circuit (IC) components; this fact motivates exploration of the relationship between crystallographic structure and transport of graphene patterned at IC-relevant length scales (<10 nm). We report on the controlled fabrication of pristine, freestanding GNRs with widths as small as 0.7 nm, paired with simultaneous lattice-resolution imaging and electrical transport characterization, all conducted within an aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope. Few-layer GNRs very frequently formed bonded-bilayers and were remarkably robust, sustaining currents in excess of 1.5 mu A per carbon bond across a S atom-wide ribbon. We found that the intrinsic conductance of a sub-10 nm bonded bilayer GNR scaled with width as G(BL)(w) approximate to 3/4(e(2)/h)w, where w is the width in nanometers, while a monolayer GNR was roughly five times less conductive. Nanosculpted, crystalline monolayer GNRs exhibited armchair-terminated edges after current annealing, presenting a pathway for the controlled fabrication of semiconducting GNRs with known edge geometry. Finally, we report on simulations of quantum transport in GNRs that are in qualitative agreement with the observations.