• 文献标题:   Length-Dependent Evolution of Type II Heterojunctions in Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RIZZO DJ, WU M, TSAI HZ, MARANGONI T, DURR RA, OMRANI AA, LIOU F, BRONNER C, JOSHI T, NGUYEN GD, RODGERS GF, CHOI WW, JORGENSEN JH, FISCHER FR, LOUIE SG, CROMMIE MF
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbons gnrs, molecular electronic, scanning tunneling microscopy stm, scanning tunneling spectroscopy sts, density functional theory dft, charge transfer, heterojunction, bottomup
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Calif Berkeley
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00758
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

The ability to tune the band-edge energies of bottom-up graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) via edge dopants creates new opportunities for designing tailor-made GNR heterojunctions and related nanoscale electronic devices. Here we report the local electronic characterization of type II GNR heterojunctions composed of two different nitrogen edge-doping configurations (carbazole and phenanthridine) that separately exhibit electron-donating and electron-withdrawing behavior. Atomically resolved structural characterization of phenanthridine/carbazole GNR heterojunctions was performed using bond-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and first-principles calculations reveal that carbazole and phenanthridine dopant configurations induce opposite upward and downward orbital energy shifts owing to their different electron affinities. The magnitude of the energy offsets observed in carbazole/phenanthridine heterojunctions is dependent on the length of the GNR segments comprising each heterojunction with longer segments leading to larger heterojunction energy offsets. Using a new on-site energy analysis based on Wannier functions, we find that the origin of this behavior is a charge transfer process that reshapes the electrostatic potential profile over a long distance within the GNR heterojunction.