Chemically isolated graphene nanoribbons reversibly formed in fluorographene using polymer nanowire masks.

Lee, Woo-Kyung; Robinson, Jeremy T; Gunlycke, Daniel; Stine, Rory R; Tamanaha, Cy R; King, William P; Sheehan, Paul E · Nano Lett · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrated the fabrication of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as narrow as 35 nm created using scanning probe lithography to deposit a polymer mask(1-3) and then fluorinating the sample to isolate the masked graphene from the surrounding wide band gap fluorographene. The polymer protected the GNR from atmospheric adsorbates while the adjacent fluorographene stably p-doped the GNRs which had electron mobilities of ∼2700 cm2/(V·s). Chemical isolation of the GNR enabled resetting the device to nearly pristine graphene.