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Cheng, Yingchun
Han, Yu

Schwingenschlögl, Udo

Wang, H. T.
Zhang, Xixiang

Zhu, Yihan
Zhu, Zhiyong
KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterBiological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division
Chemical Science Program
Computational Physics and Materials Science (CPMS)
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
Material Science and Engineering Program
Nanostructured Functional Materials (NFM) laboratory
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2012-02-17Permanent link to this record
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The edge structure and width of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are crucial factors for the electronic properties. A combination of experiment and first-principles calculations allows us to determine the mechanism of the hexagon-hexagon to pentagon-heptagon transformation. GNRs thinner than 2 nm have been fabricated by bombardment of graphene with high-energetic Au clusters. The edges of the GNRs are modified in situ by electron irradiation. Tensile strain along the edge decreases the transformation energy barrier. Antiferromagnetism and a direct band gap are found for a zigzag GNR, while a fully reconstructed GNR shows an indirect band gap. A GNR reconstructed on only one edge exhibits ferromagnetism. We propose that strain is an effective method to tune the edge and, therefore, the electronic structure of thin GNRs for graphene-based electronics.Citation
Cheng YC, Wang HT, Zhu ZY, Zhu YH, Han Y, et al. (2012) Strain-activated edge reconstruction of graphene nanoribbons. Phys Rev B 85. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.073406.Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Journal
Physical Review BAdditional Links
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.073406ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.073406