Intermolecular band dispersion of thin film phase pentacene grown epitaxially on step-bunched 3×3 Bi–Si(111) was investigated using angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy at 130 K. We evaluated the transfer integrals using two-dimensional tight-binding fit to the experimental dispersion and found that adjacent molecules in Γ-M direction have the strongest coupling as predicted. The estimated effective mass at the top of the valence band was isotropic and ranged between 0.8 and 1.0 of the electron mass.
We report etching-free and iodine-free transfer of highly aligned array of armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (ACGNRs) and their field-effect transistor (FET) characteristics. They were prepared by on-surface polymerization on Au(788) templates. The ACGNRs were mechanically delaminated and transferred onto insulating substrates with the aid of a nano-porous support layer composed of hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ). The key process in the mechanical delamination is the intercalation of octanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), which penetrate the HSQ layer and intercalate between the ACGNRs and Au(788). After the transfer, the octanethiol SAMs were removed with Piranha solution, enabling the reuse of the Au single crystals. The FETs fabricated with the transferred ACGNR array showed ambipolar behavior when the channel length was as long as 60 nm. Quasi-one-dimensional conductivity was observed, which implies a good alignment of GNRs after the transfer. In contrast, short-channel ACGNR FETs (channel length ∼20 nm) suffer from a geometry-dependent short-channel effect. This effect is more severe in the FETs with ACGNRs parallel to the channel, which is an ideal geometry, than in ones perpendicular to the channel. Since the ID-VD curve is well fitted by the power-law model, the short-channel effect likely stems from the space-charge limited current effect, while the wide charge-transfer region in the GNR channel can be another possible cause for the short-channel effect. These results provide us with important insights into the designing short-channel GNR-FETs with improved performance.
The atomic and electronic structure of narrow zigzag
nanoribbons
with finite length, consisting of graphene terminated by fluorine
on one side, hexagonal (h) h-BN,
and h-SiC were studied with density functional theory.
It is found that the asymmetry of nanoribbon edges causes a uniform
curvature of the ribbons due to structural stress in the aromatic
ring plane. Narrow graphene nanoribbons terminated with fluorine on
one side demonstrate a considerable out-of-plane bend, suggesting
that the nanoribbon is a fraction of a conical surface. It is shown
that the intrinsic curvature of the narrow nanoribbons destroys the
periodicity and results in a systematic cancellation of the dipole
moment. The in- and out-of-plane curvature of thin arcs allows their
closure in nanorings or cone fragments of giant diameter. Using the
fragment molecular orbital method, we optimized the structure of a
planar giant arc and a closed ring of h-BN with a
diameter of 105 nm.
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