Numerical investigation of the effect of substrate surface roughness on the performance of zigzag graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors symmetrically doped with BN

• Majid Sanaeepur,
• Arash Yazdanpanah Goharrizi and
• Mohammad Javad Sharifi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1569–1574, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.168

• graphene nanoribbon that is symmetrically doped with boron nitride (BN) as a channel material, is numerically studied for the first time. The device merit for digital applications is investigated in terms of the on-, the off- and the on/off-current ratio. Due to the strong effect of the substrate roughness

• ; substrate roughness; zigzag graphene nanoribbon field effect transistor (ZGNRFET); Introduction Field effect transistors (FETs) with a 10 nm gate length are stipulated by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) for the year 2020 [1]. Regarding the Si scaling limits, it is obvious

• GNRs [28]. Also the performance of armchair GNRFETs (AGNRFETs) is significantly degraded by SR [29]. In this work the device performance of symmetrically BN-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors (s-BN-ZGNRFETs) is numerically studied for the first time. SiO2, BN and mica substrates

Sublattice asymmetry of impurity doping in graphene: A review

• James A. Lawlor and
• Mauro S. Ferreira

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1210–1217, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.133

• leads to a same sublattice configuration for all impurities in a domain. Through density functional theory (DFT) calculations involving a graphene nanoribbon on a Cu(111) substrate, aiming to reproduce experimental conditions, a thorough investigation into the energetic favourable position of single

• dashed line shows the expected band gap scaling with concentration, according to the power 3/4 as discussed in the text. Quantum conductance through a 15 nm wide graphene nanoribbon with a 7.5 nm long scattering region containing a dispersion of substitutional nitrogen impurities, in a similar vein to

Controlled synthesis and tunable properties of ultrathin silica nanotubes through spontaneous polycondensation on polyamine fibrils

• Jian-Jun Yuan,
• Pei-Xin Zhu,
• Daisuke Noda and
• Ren-Hua Jin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 793–804, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.90

• performed by adding 1.5 mL of MS51 into 15 mL of aqueous dispersion of LPEI aggregates for 1.0 h at room temperature. N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms (A) and BJH pore-size distribution curve obtained from the adsorption branch (B) of silica nanoribbon and silica nanotube. The synthesis conditions are the

Electronic and transport properties of kinked graphene

• Jesper Toft Rasmussen,
• Tue Gunst,
• Peter Bøggild,
• Antti-Pekka Jauho and
• Mads Brandbyge

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 103–110, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.12

• efficient barriers for electron transport. In particular, two parallel kink lines form a graphene pseudo-nanoribbon structure with a semimetallic/semiconducting electronic structure closely related to the corresponding isolated ribbons; the ribbon band gap translates into a transport gap for electronic

• two close-by parallel kinks form a pseudo graphene nanoribbon with similar behaviour of the electronic structure to that for isolated nanoribbons. The transmission function displays transport gap features corresponding to the isolated nanoribbon band gaps. The present work thus suggests that it may be

Graphite, graphene on SiC, and graphene nanoribbons: Calculated images with a numerical FM-AFM

• Fabien Castanié,
• Laurent Nony,
• Sébastien Gauthier and
• Xavier Bouju

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 301–311, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.34

• tackled FM-AFM image calculations of three types of graphitic structures, namely a graphite surface, a graphene sheet on a silicon carbide substrate with a Si-terminated surface, and finally, a graphene nanoribbon. We compared static structures, meaning that all the tip and sample atoms are kept frozen in

• their equilibrium position, with dynamic systems, obtained with a molecular dynamics module allowing all the atoms to move freely during the probe oscillations. Conclusion: We found a very good agreement with experimental graphite and graphene images. The imaging process for the deposited nanoribbon

• demonstrates the stability of our n-AFM to image a non-perfectly planar substrate exhibiting a geometrical step as well as a material step. Keywords: calculations; FM-AFM; graphene; graphite; image; nanoribbon; Introduction In the family of atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques, the frequency-modulation

Approaches to nanostructure control and functionalizations of polymer@silica hybrid nanograss generated by biomimetic silica mineralization on a self-assembled polyamine layer

• Jian-Jun Yuan and
• Ren-Hua Jin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 760–773, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.84

• polyamine@silica nanoribbon-based hybrid nanograss film, which was generated by performing a biomimetic silica mineralization reaction on a nanostructured linear polyethyleneimine (LPEI) layer preorganized on the inner wall of a glass tube. We found that the film thickness, size and density of the

• crystalline self-assembly on substrates, we also synthesized an ultrathin silica-nanowire-based surface, which demonstrated the feasible modulation of the hierarchical nanostructure and surface morphology [34]. In comparison, the modulation of the nanostructure and surface morphology of nanoribbon-based

• in this pure water medium, leading to the uniform LPEI@silica nanograss film (Figure 2d). In contrast to the nanograss formed in IPA–water mixture medium, the silica mineralization in the pure water medium generated a hybrid film consisting of much denser and well-arrayed nanoribbon structures