Intraribbon heterojunction formation in ultranarrow graphene nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2020-2025

  Blankenburg, Stephan ^a   Cai, Jinming ^a   Ruffieux, Pascal ^a   Jaafar, Rached ^a   Passerone, Daniele ^a   Feng, Xinliang ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^b   Fasel, Roman ^a,c   Pignedoli, Carlo A ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computational nanotechnology; graphene nanoribbon; heterojunction; molecular self assembly; nanoscale materials; synthesis and processing

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PRECISION; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; AU(111) SURFACES; CHEMICAL ROUTES; COMPUTATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; DEHYDROGENATION REACTIONS; EDGE STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ETCHING TECHNIQUE; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LATERAL DIMENSION; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR PRECURSOR; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANORIBBONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SELF-ASSEMBLED;

DEHYDROGENATION; GRAPHENE; NANOSTRUCTURES; OLIGOMERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GOLD; GRAPHITE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HYDROGENATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

GOLD; GRAPHITE; HYDROGENATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84859150664     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203129a     Document Type: Article

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