Ballistic tracks in graphene nanoribbons

Johannes Aprojanz; Stephen R. Power; Pantelis Bampoulis; Stephan Roche; Antti-Pekka Jauho; Harold J. W. Zandvliet; Alexei A. Zakharov; Christoph Tegenkamp

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06940-5

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Ballistic tracks in graphene nanoribbons

Johannes Aprojanz,
Stephen R. Power,
Pantelis Bampoulis,
Stephan Roche,
Antti-Pekka Jauho,
Harold J. W. Zandvliet,
Alexei A. Zakharov,
Christoph Tegenkamp

Affiliations

Johannes Aprojanz: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Stephen R. Power: Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra
Pantelis Bampoulis: Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials, MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
Stephan Roche: Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra
Antti-Pekka Jauho: Center for Nanostructured Graphene (CNG), DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark
Harold J. W. Zandvliet: Physics of Interfaces and Nanomaterials, MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
Alexei A. Zakharov: MAX IV Laboratory and Lund University
Christoph Tegenkamp: Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06940-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Electronic highways were realized by means of epitaxially grown graphene nanoribbons on SiC substrates. Here, the authors use spatially-resolved two-point probe and conductive AFM measurements, supplemented by tight-binding calculations, to image the one-dimensional ballistic transport channels.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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