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Experimentally Engineering the Edge Termination of Graphene Nanoribbons

Zhang, Xiaowei
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Yazyev, Oleg V.  
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Feng, Juanjuan
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2013
Acs Nano

The edges of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted much interest due to their potentially strong influence on GNR electronic and magnetic properties. Here we report the ability to engineer the microscopic edge termination of high-quality GNRs via hydrogen plasma etching. Using a combination of high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and first-principles calculations, we have determined the exact atomic structure of plasma-etched GNR edges and established the chemical nature of terminating functional groups for zigzag, armchair, and chiral edge orientations. We find that the edges of hydrogen-plasma-etched GNRs are generally flat, free of structural reconstructions, and terminated by hydrogen atoms with no rehybridlzation of the outermost carbon edge atoms. Both zigzag and chiral edges show the presence of edge states.

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DOI
10.1021/nn303730v
Web of Science ID

WOS:000314082800024

Author(s)
Zhang, Xiaowei
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Yazyev, Oleg V.  
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Feng, Juanjuan
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Xie, Liming
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Tao, Chenggang
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Chen, Yen-Chia
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Jiao, Liying
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Pedramrazi, Zahra
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Zettl, Alex
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Louie, Steven G.
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Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Acs Nano
Volume

7

Issue

1

Start page

198

End page

202

Subjects

graphene nanoribbon

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synthesis

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scanning tunneling microscopy

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first-principles calculations

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REVIEWED

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March 28, 2013
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