• 文献标题:   Graphene nanoribbons with smooth edges behave as quantum wires
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG XR, OUYANG YJ, JIAO LY, WANG HL, XIE LM, WU J, GUO J, DAI HJ
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1748-3387 EI 1748-3395
  • 通讯作者地址:   Stanford Univ
  • 被引频次:   145
  • DOI:   10.1038/NNANO.2011.138
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbons with perfect edges are predicted to exhibit interesting electronic and spintronic properties(1-4), notably quantum-confined bandgaps and magnetic edge states. However, so far, graphene nanoribbons produced by lithography have had rough edges, as well as low-temperature transport characteristics dominated by defects (mainly variable range hopping between localized states in a transport gap near the Dirac point(5-9)). Here, we report that one-and two-layer nanoribbon quantum dots made by unzipping carbon nanotubes(10) exhibit well-defined quantum transport phenomena, including Coulomb blockade, the Kondo effect, clear excited states up to similar to 20 meV, and inelastic co-tunnelling. Together with the signatures of intrinsic quantum-confined bandgaps and high conductivities, our data indicate that the nanoribbons behave as clean quantum wires at low temperatures, and are not dominated by defects.