1. Platinum contacts for 9-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons
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Hsu, Chunwei, Rohde, Michael, Barin, Gabriela Borin, Gandus, Guido, Passerone, Daniele, Luisier, Mathieu, Ruffieux, Pascal, Fasel, Roman, van der Zant, Herre S. J., and Abbassi, Maria El
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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
Creating a good contact between electrodes and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has been a longstanding challenge in searching for the next GNR-based nanoelectronics. This quest requires the controlled fabrication of sub-20 nm metallic gaps, a clean GNR transfer minimizing damage and organic contamination during the device fabrication, as well as work function matching to minimize the contact resistance. Here, we transfer 9-atom-wide armchair-edged GNRs (9-AGNRs) grown on Au(111)/mica substrates to pre-patterned platinum electrodes, yielding polymer-free 9-AGNR field-effect transistor devices. Our devices have a resistance in the range of $10^6$ to $10^8$ $\Omega$ in the low-bias regime, which is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude lower than previous reports. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function method (NEGF) explain the observed p-type electrical characteristics and further demonstrate that platinum gives strong coupling and higher transmission in comparison to other materials such as graphene., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures
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- 2023
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