Bandgap engineering of zigzag graphene nanoribbons by manipulating edge states via defective boundaries

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2011-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/1105.5858v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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One of severe limits of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) in future applications is that zigzag GNRs (ZGNRs) are gapless, so cannot be used in field effect transistors (FETs). In this paper, using tight-binding approach and first principles method, we derived and proved a general edge (boundary) condition for the opening of a significant bandgap in ZGNRs with defective edge structures. The proposed semiconducting GNRs have some interesting properties including the one that they can be embedded and integrated in a large piece of graphene without the need of completely cutting them out. We also demonstrated a new type of high-performance all-ZGNR FET.

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