Titre du document / Document title

Aligned graphene nanoribbons and crossbars from unzipped carbon nanotubes

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

Jiao Liying ⁽¹⁾ ; Zhang Li ⁽¹⁾ ; Ding Lei ⁽¹⁾ ; Liu Jie ⁽²⁾ ; Dai Hongjie ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, California, Stanford, USA
⁽²⁾ Department of Chemistry, Duke University, North Carolina, Durham, USA

Résumé / Abstract

Aligned graphene nanoribbon (GNR) arrays have been made by unzipping of aligned single-walled and few-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays. Nanotube unzipping was achieved by a polymer-protected Ar plasma etching method, and the resulting nanoribbon array can be transferred onto any chosen substrate. Atomic force microscope (AFM) imaging and Raman mapping on the same CNTs before and after unzipping confirmed that ~80% of CNTs were opened up to form single layer sub-10 nm GNRs. Electrical devices made from the GNRs (after annealing in H₂ at high temperature) showed on/off current (I_on/I_off) ratios up to 10³ at room temperature, suggesting the semiconducting nature of the narrow GNRs. Novel GNR-GNR and GNR-CNT crossbars were fabricated by transferring GNR arrays across GNR and CNT arrays, respectively. The production of such ordered graphene nanoribbon architectures may allow for large scale integration of GNRs into nanoelectronics or optoelectronics.

Revue / Journal Title

Nano research    ISSN  1998-0000 

Source / Source

2010, vol. 3, n^o6, pp. 387-394 [8 page(s) (article)]

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Springer, Heidelberg, ALLEMAGNE  (2008) (Revue)

Mots-clés d'auteur / Author Keywords

Graphene nanoribbon

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single-walled carbon nanotubes

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aligned

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unzipping

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plasma etching

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Localisation / Location

35400060525202.0001