Precise spatial control of materials is the key capability of engineering their optical, electronic, and mechanical properties. However, growth of graphene on Cu was revealed to be seed-induced two-dimensional (2D) growth, limiting the synthesis of complex graphene spatial structures. In this research, we report the growth of onion ring like three-dimensional (3D) graphene structures, which are...

Graphene’s unique symmetry between pand n-branches has enabled several interesting device applications; however, short-channel devices often exhibit degraded symmetry. We examine how graphene nanoribbon geometries can improve transfer characteristics and p–n symmetry, as well as reduce Dirac point shift for highly scaled graphene devices. RF graphene transistors utilizing a multiribbon channel ...

We report on the experimental demonstration and electrical characterization of N = 7 armchair graphene nanoribbon (7-AGNR) field effect transistors. The back-gated transistors are fabricated from atomically precise and highly aligned 7-AGNRs, synthesized with a bottom-up approach. The large area transfer process holds the promise of scalable device fabrication with atomically precise nanoribbon...

Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Detection of Nucleic Acids with Graphene Nanopores: Ab Initio Characterization of a Novel Sequencing Device1 TAMMIE NELSON, BO ZHANG, OLEG PREZHDO, University of Washington — We report an ab initio study of the interaction of two nucleobases, cytosine and adenine, with a novel graphene nanopore device for detecting the base sequen...

We study vibrational states localized at the edges of graphene nanoribbons. Such surface oscillations can be considered as a phonon analog of Tamm states in the electronic theory. We consider both armchair and zigzag graphene stripes and demonstrate that surface modes correspond to phonons localized at the edges of the graphene nanoribbon, and they can be classified as in-plane and out-of-plane...

We present an infrared transmission spectroscopy study of the inter-Landau-level excitations in quasineutral epitaxial graphene nanoribbon arrays. We observed a substantial deviation in energy of the L(0(-1)) → L(1(0)) transition from the characteristic square root magnetic-field dependence of two-dimensional graphene. This deviation arises from the formation of an upper-hybrid mode between the...

In this paper we propose an analytical method to calculate the band structures of graphene-like nanoribbons of the armchair type with arbitrary line defects or uniaxial strains. The model is based on the tight-binding model and the standing wave assumption for the armchair nanoribbons. It gives accurate band results for large supercell systems. Within this method, we analyze different local sta...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Electron transport in graphene monolayers1 JUN-QIANG LIU, DANIEL VALENCIA, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez — We demonstrate electronic transmission of a monolayer can be reduced when covered by a nanoribbon. The transmission reduction occurs at different energies determined by the width of the nanoribbon. We explain the tran...

Materials of the general form MX2 (transition metal dichalcogenides) have generated a lot of interest recently. They can form nanoribbons like graphene and such nanoribbons have versatile electronic structures and can be metallic or semiconducting by changing the edges of the ribbon. The electronic properties of such materials are not fully understood till now. In this paper we investigate one ...