Transport Gap Opening and High On-Off Current Ratio in Trilayer Graphene with Self-Aligned Nanodomain Boundaries

Han Chun Wu; Alexander N. Chaika; Tsung Wei Huang; Askar Syrlybekov; Mourad Abid; Victor Yu Aristov; Olga V. Molodtsova; Sergey V. Babenkov; D. Marchenko; Jaime Sánchez-Barriga; Partha Sarathi Mandal; Andrei Yu Varykhalov; Yuran Niu; Barry E. Murphy; Sergey A. Krasnikov; Olaf Lübben; Jing Jing Wang; Huajun Liu; Li Yang; Hongzhou Zhang; Mohamed Abid; Yahya T. Janabi; Sergei N. Molotkov; Ching Ray Chang; Igor Shvets

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b02877

Transport Gap Opening and High On-Off Current Ratio in Trilayer Graphene with Self-Aligned Nanodomain Boundaries

Han Chun Wu^*
, Alexander N. Chaika
, Tsung Wei Huang
, Askar Syrlybekov
, Mourad Abid
, Victor Yu Aristov
, Olga V. Molodtsova
, Sergey V. Babenkov
, D. Marchenko
, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga
, Partha Sarathi Mandal
, Andrei Yu Varykhalov
, Yuran Niu
, Barry E. Murphy
, Sergey A. Krasnikov
, Olaf Lübben
, Jing Jing Wang
, Huajun Liu
, Li Yang
, Hongzhou Zhang

Mohamed Abid, Yahya T. Janabi, Sergei N. Molotkov, Ching Ray Chang, Igor Shvets

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Physics

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Abstract

Trilayer graphene exhibits exceptional electronic properties that are of interest both for fundamental science and for technological applications. The ability to achieve a high on-off current ratio is the central question in this field. Here, we propose a simple method to achieve a current on-off ratio of 10⁴ by opening a transport gap in Bernal-stacked trilayer graphene. We synthesized Bernal-stacked trilayer graphene with self-aligned periodic nanodomain boundaries (NBs) on the technologically relevant vicinal cubic-SiC(001) substrate and performed electrical measurements. Our low-temperature transport measurements clearly demonstrate that the self-aligned periodic NBs can induce a charge transport gap greater than 1.3 eV. More remarkably, the transport gap of ∼0.4 eV persists even at 100 K. Our results show the feasibility of creating new electronic nanostructures with high on-off current ratios using graphene on cubic-SiC.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8967-8975
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACS Nano
Volume	9
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b02877
Publication status	Published - 22 Sept 2015

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ARPES
nanodomain boundary
scanning tunneling microscopy
transport gap
trilayer graphene

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Wu, H. C., Chaika, A. N., Huang, T. W., Syrlybekov, A., Abid, M., Aristov, V. Y., Molodtsova, O. V., Babenkov, S. V., Marchenko, D., Sánchez-Barriga, J., Mandal, P. S., Varykhalov, A. Y., Niu, Y., Murphy, B. E., Krasnikov, S. A., Lübben, O., Wang, J. J., Liu, H., Yang, L., ... Shvets, I. (2015). Transport Gap Opening and High On-Off Current Ratio in Trilayer Graphene with Self-Aligned Nanodomain Boundaries. ACS Nano, 9(9), 8967-8975. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b02877

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Transport Gap Opening and High On-Off Current Ratio in Trilayer Graphene with Self-Aligned Nanodomain Boundaries

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