• 文献标题:   Effect of pore-size disorder on the electronic properties of semiconducting graphene nanomeshes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GAMAL S, FADLALLAH MM, SALAH LM, MAAROUF AA
  • 作者关键词:   tight binding density functional theory, graphene, graphene nanomeshe, antidot graphene, disordered pore
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Benha Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/abb04d
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanomeshes (GNMs) are novel materials that recently raised a lot of interest. They are fabricated by forming a lattice of pores in graphene. Depending on the pore size and pore lattice constant, GNMs can be either semimetallic or semiconducting with a gap large enough (similar to 0.5 eV) to be considered for transistor applications. The fabrication process is bound to produce some structural disorder due to variations in pore size. Recent electronic transport measurements in GNM devices (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10, 10 362, 2018) show a degradation of their bandgap in devices having pore-size disorder. It is therefore important to understand the effect of such variability on the electronic properties of semiconducting GNMs. In this work we use the density functional-based tight binding formalism to calculate the electronic properties of GNM structures with different pore sizes, pore densities, and with hydrogen and oxygen pore edge passivations. We find that structural disorder reduces the electronic gap and the carrier group velocity, which may interpret recent transport measurements in GNM devices. Furthermore, the trend of the bandgap with structural disorder is not significantly affected by the change in pore edge passivation. Our results show that even with structural disorder, GNMs are still attractive from a transistor device perspective.