• 文献标题:   Field Effect and Local Gating in Nitrogen-Terminated Nanopores (NtNP) and Nanogaps (NtNG) in Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   DJURISIC I, DRAZIC MS, TOMOVIC AZ, SPASENOVIC M, SLJIVANCANIN Z, JOVANOVIC VP, ZIKIC R
  • 作者关键词:   dft plus negf, field effect, graphene, sensor, termination
  • 出版物名称:   CHEMPHYSCHEM
  • ISSN:   1439-4235 EI 1439-7641
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Belgrade
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/cphc.202000771 EA DEC 2020
  • 出版年:  

▎ 摘  要

Functionalization of electrodes is a wide-used strategy in various applications ranging from single-molecule sensing and protein sequencing, to ion trapping, to desalination. We demonstrate, employing non-equilibrium Green ' s function formalism combined with density functional theory, that single-species (N, H, S, Cl, F) termination of graphene nanogap electrodes results in a strong in-gap electrostatic field, induced by species-dependent dipoles formed at the electrode ends. Consequently, the field increases or decreases electronic transport through a molecule (benzene) placed in the nanogap by shifting molecular levels by almost 2 eV in respect to the electrode Fermi level via a field effect akin to the one used for field-effect transistors. We also observed the local gating in graphene nanopores terminated with different single-species atoms. Nitrogen-terminated nanogaps (NtNGs) and nanopores (NtNPs) show the strongest effect. The in-gap potential can be transformed from a plateau-like to a saddle-like shape by tailoring NtNG and NtNP size and termination type. In particular, the saddle-like potential is applicable in single-ion trapping and desalination devices.