In-situ electronic characterization of graphene nanoconstrictions fabricated in a transmission electron microscope

Details In-situ electronic characterization of graphene nanoconstrictions fabricated in a transmission electron microscope In-situ electronic characterization of graphene nanoconstrictions fabricated in a transmission electron microscope

2011-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5925v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by Nano Letters

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We report electronic measurements on high-quality graphene nanoconstrictions (GNCs) fabricated in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and the first measurements on GNC conductance with an accurate measurement of constriction width down to 1 nm. To create the GNCs, freely-suspended graphene ribbons were fabricated using few-layer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition. The ribbons were loaded into the TEM, and a current-annealing procedure was used to clean the material and improve its electronic characteristics. The TEM beam was then used to sculpt GNCs to a series of desired widths in the range 1 - 700 nm; after each sculpting step, the sample was imaged by TEM and its electronic properties measured in-situ. GNC conductance was found to be remarkably high, comparable to that of exfoliated graphene samples of similar size. The GNC conductance varied with width approximately as, where w is the constriction width in nanometers. GNCs support current densities greater than 120 \muA/nm2, two orders of magnitude higher than has been previously reported for graphene nanoribbons and 2000 times higher than copper.

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