Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Oriented graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride trenches

  • Lingxiu Chen,
  • Li He,
  • Hui Shan Wang,
  • Haomin Wang,
  • Shujie Tang,
  • Chunxiao Cong,
  • Hong Xie,
  • Lei Li,
  • Hui Xia,
  • Tianxin Li,
  • Tianru Wu,
  • Daoli Zhang,
  • Lianwen Deng,
  • Ting Yu,
  • Xiaoming Xie,
  • Mianheng Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14703
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Graphene nanoribbons are promising candidates for 2D material electrical interconnects; however, the top-down fabrication of nanoribbons has remained a challenge. Here, Chenet al. have used a hexagonal boron nitride template to grow narrow, integrated graphene nanoribbons with small bandgaps.