Friday, March 30, 2012

1203.6568 (Caterina Cocchi et al.)

Designing all-graphene nanojunctions by covalent functionalization    [PDF]

Caterina Cocchi, Alice Ruini, Deborah Prezzi, Marilia J. Caldas, Elisa Molinari
We investigated theoretically the effect of covalent edge functionalization, with organic functional groups, on the electronic properties of graphene nanostructures and nano-junctions. Our analysis shows that functionalization can be designed to tune electron affinities and ionization potentials of graphene flakes, and to control the energy alignment of frontier orbitals in nanometer-wide graphene junctions. The stability of the proposed mechanism is discussed with respect to the functional groups, their number as well as the width of graphene nanostructures. The results of our work indicate that different level alignments can be obtained and engineered in order to realize stable all-graphene nanodevices.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6568

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