Paper

Platinum contacts for 9-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons

Gandus, Guido, Hsu, Chunwei, Passerone, Daniele, Fasel, Roman, Gabriela Borin Barin, Maria El Abbassi, Herre S J van der Zant, Rohde, Michael, Ruffieux, Pascal, Luisier, Mathieu

2023

Overview

Creating a good contact between electrodes and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has been a longstanding challenge in searching for the next GNR-based nanoelectronics. This quest requires the controlled fabrication of sub-20 nm metallic gaps, a clean GNR transfer minimizing damage and organic contamination during the device fabrication, as well as work function matching to minimize the contact resistance. Here, we transfer 9-atom-wide armchair-edged GNRs (9-AGNRs) grown on Au(111)/mica substrates to pre-patterned platinum electrodes, yielding polymer-free 9-AGNR field-effect transistor devices. Our devices have a resistance in the range of \\(10^6\\) to \\(10^8\\) \\(\\Omega\\) in the low-bias regime, which is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude lower than previous reports. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function method (NEGF) explain the observed p-type electrical characteristics and further demonstrate that platinum gives strong coupling and higher transmission in comparison to other materials such as graphene.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Contact resistance / Density functional theory / Electric contacts / Electrodes / Field effect transistors / Graphene / Green's functions / Mica / Nanoelectronics / Nanoribbons / Platinum / Semiconductor devices / Substrates / Work functions