• 文献标题:   Opening an Electrical Band Gap of Bilayer Graphene with Molecular Doping
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG WJ, LIN CT, LIU KK, TITE T, SU CY, CHANG CH, LEE YH, CHU CW, WEI KH, KUO JL, LI LJ
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer graphene, band gap opening, transistor, raman spectroscopy, doping, on/off current ratio, triazine
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Acad Sinica
  • 被引频次:   155
  • DOI:   10.1021/nn202463g
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

The opening of an electrical band l gap in graphene Is crucial for its application for logic circuits. Recent studies have shown that an energy gap in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene can be generated by applying an electric displacement field. Molecular doping has also been proposed to open the electrical gap of bilayer graphene by breaking either in-plane symmetry or inversion symmetry; however, no direct observation of an electrical gap has been reported. Here we discover that the organic molecule triazine is able to form a uniform thin coating on the top surface of a bilayer graphene, which efficiently blocks the accessible doping sites and prevents ambient p-doping on the top layer. The charge distribution asymmetry between the top and bottom layers can then be enhanced simply by increasing the p-doping from oxygen/moisture to the bottom layer. The on/off current ratio for a bottom-gated bilayer transistor operated in ambient condition Is improved by at least 1 order of magnitude. The estimated electrical band gap is up to similar to 111 meV at room temperature. The observed electrical band gap dependence on the hole-carrier density increase agrees well with the recent density-functional theory calculations. This research provides a simple method to obtain a graphene bilayer transistor with a moderate on/off current ratio, which can be stably operated in air without the need to use an additional top gate.