Anisotropic electrically conductive films (PI-GNR/CNT) consisting of highly aligned polyimide (PI) composite fibers with graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and carbon nanotube (CNT) (GNR/CNT) hybrids as nanofillers have been prepared by electrospinning. The GNR/CNT hybrids used here were prepared by one-step partial unzipping of multi-walled CNTs, in which, with the residual CNTs bonded on the randomly ...

A prerequisite for future graphene nanoribbon (GNR) applications is the ability to fine-tune the electronic band gap of GNRs. Such control requires the development of fabrication tools capable of precisely controlling width and edge geometry of GNRs at the atomic scale. Here we report a technique for modifying GNR band gaps via covalent self-assembly of a new species of molecular precursors tha...

Besides its interesting physical properties, graphene as a two-dimensional lattice of carbon atoms promises to realize devices with exceptional electronic properties, where freely suspended graphene without contact to any substrate is the ultimate, truly two-dimensional system. The practical realization of nano-devices from suspended graphene, however, relies heavily on finding a structuring me...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons with Various Widths and Its Application to Thin-Film Transistor KYUNG TAE KIM, WON HO JO, Seoul National University — Although graphene itself is a zero-bandgap semimetal, graphene nanoribbon (GNR) with a width smaller than 10 nm exhibits semiconducting behavior that renders them suitable for acti...

We study electronic quantum transport in graphene nanoribbon (GNR) networks on mesoscopic length scales. focus zigzag GNRs and investigate the conductance properties of statistical networks. To this end we use a density-functional-based tight-binding model to determine structure theory calculate properties. then introduce new efficient network decimation algorithm that reduces complexity generi...

We have demonstrated the fabrication of both armchair and zigzag epitaxial graphene nanoribbon (GNR) devices on 4H–SiC using a polymer-assisted sublimation growth method. The phenomenon terrace step formation has traditionally introduced risk GNR deformation along sidewalls, but method helps mitigate this risk. Each type 50 nm wide is examined electrically optically (armchair zigzag), with latt...

We study graphene nanoribbon (GNR) interconnects obtained from graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). We report low- and high-field electrical measurements over a wide temperature range, from 1.7 to 900 K. Room temperature mobilities range from 100 to 500 cm(2)·V(-1)·s(-1), comparable to GNRs from exfoliated graphene, suggesting that bulk defects or grain boundaries play little role...

A simple nanocarrier of polyethylenimine-grafted graphene nanoribbon (PEI-g-GNR) was proposed as an effective gene vector. The GNR was formed by longitudinally unzipping multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and treated with strong acids and sonication to obtain surface carboxylic acid groups for graft of PEI via electrostatic assembly. The PEI-g-GNR appeared to protect locked nucleic acid mod...

It is usually assumed that tunneling current is fairly independent of temperature. By performing an atomistic transport simulation, we show, to the contrary, that the subthreshold tunneling current in a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) band-to-band tunneling transistor (TFET) should show significant and nonlinear temperature dependence. Furthermore, the nature of this non-linearity changes as a functi...

The thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has been investigatedusing equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulation based on Green-Kubo (GK)method to compare two interatomic potentials namely optimized Tersoff and 2nd generationReactive Empirical Bond Order (REBO). Our comparative study includes the estimation ofthermal conductivity as a function of temperature, l...