Molecular bandgap engineering of bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 156-160

  Chen, Yen Chia ^a,b   Cao, Ting ^a,b   Chen, Chen ^a   Pedramrazi, Zahra ^a   Haberer, Danny ^a   De Oteyza, Dimas G ^a,c   Fischer, Felix R ^a,b   Louie, Steven G ^a,b   Crommie, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY GAP; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; NANORIBBONS; RESONANT TUNNELING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE; SPATIALLY MODULATED;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE; NANOMATERIAL; NANORIBBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84926076568     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.307     Document Type: Article

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