Communications Materials (Jun 2020)

Small bandgap in atomically precise 17-atom-wide armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons

  • Junichi Yamaguchi,
  • Hironobu Hayashi,
  • Hideyuki Jippo,
  • Akitoshi Shiotari,
  • Manabu Ohtomo,
  • Mitsuhiro Sakakura,
  • Nao Hieda,
  • Naoki Aratani,
  • Mari Ohfuchi,
  • Yoshiaki Sugimoto,
  • Hiroko Yamada,
  • Shintaro Sato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0039-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons, characterized by width-dependent bandgaps, may become prominent in future semiconductor devices. Here, a small bandgap of 0.19 eV is achieved in 17-atom-wide nanoribbons, promising better transport characteristics in field-effect transistors.