• 文献标题:   Highly stretchable graphene nanoribbon springs by programmable nanowire lithography
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU C, YAO B, DONG TG, MA HG, ZHANG SB, WANG JZ, XU J, SHI Y, CHEN KJ, GAO LB, YU LW
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  • 出版物名称:   NPJ 2D MATERIALS APPLICATIONS
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Sch Elect Sci Engn
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41699-019-0105-7
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbons are ideal candidates to serve as highly conductive, flexible, and transparent interconnections, or the active channels for nanoelectronics. However, patterning narrow graphene nanoribbons to <100 nm wide usually requires inefficient micro/nano fabrication processes, which are hard to implement for large area or flexible electronic and sensory applications. Here, we develop a precise and scalable nanowire lithography technology that enables reliable batch manufacturing of ultra-long graphene nanoribbon arrays with programmable geometry and narrow width down to similar to 50 nm. The orderly graphene nanoribbons are patterned out of few-layer graphene sheets by using ultra-long silicon nanowires as masks, which are produced via in-plane solid-liquid-solid guided growth and then transferred reliably onto various stiff or flexible substrates. More importantly, the geometry of the graphene nanoribbons can be predesigned and engineered into elastic two-dimensional springs to achieve outstanding stretchability of >30%, while carrying stable and repeatable electronic transport. We suggest that this convenient scalable nanowire lithography technology has great potential to establish a general and efficient strategy to batch-pattern or integrate various two-dimensional materials as active channels and interconnections for emerging flexible electronic applications.