Energy gaps in etched graphene nanoribbons

Details Energy gaps in etched graphene nanoribbons Energy gaps in etched graphene nanoribbons

2008-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/0811.0694v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056403 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.056403

Transport measurements on an etched graphene nanoribbon are presented. It is shown that two distinct voltage scales can be experimentally extracted that characterize the parameter region of suppressed conductance at low charge density in the ribbon. One of them is related to the charging energy of localized states, the other to the strength of the disorder potential. The lever arms of gates vary by up to 30% for different localized states which must therefore be spread in position along the ribbon. A single-electron transistor is used to prove the addition of individual electrons to the localized states. In our sample the characteristic charging energy is of the order of 10 meV, the characteristic strength of the disorder potential of the order of 100 meV.

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