• 文献标题:   Solution-Synthesized Chevron Graphene Nanoribbons Exfoliated onto H:Si(100)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RADOCEA A, SUN T, VO TH, SINITSKII A, ALURU NR, LYDING JW
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbon, armchair edge, scanning tunneling spectroscopy, current imaging tunneling spectroscopy, silicon, dry contact transfer
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Illinois
  • 被引频次:   22
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03709
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

There has been tremendous progress in designing and synthesizing graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The ability to control the width, edge structure, and dopant level with atomic precision has created a large class of accessible electronic landscapes for use in logic applications. One of the major limitations preventing the realization of GNR devices is the difficulty of transferring GNRs onto nonmetallic substrates. In this work, we developed a new approach for clean deposition of solution synthesized atomically precise chevron GNRs onto H:Si(100) under ultrahigh vacuum. A clean transfer allowed ultrahigh-vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to provide high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy and reveal details of the electronic structure of chevron nanoribbons that have not been previously reported. We also demonstrate STM nanomanipulation of GNRs, characterization of multilayer GNR cross-junctions, and STM nanolithography for local depassivation of H:Si(100), which allowed us to probe GNR Si interactions and revealed a semiconducting-to-metallic transition. The results STM measurements were shown to be in good agreement with first-principles computational modeling.