Wednesday, September 5, 2012

1209.0148 (Ashkan Behnam et al.)

Transport in Nanoribbon Interconnects Obtained from Graphene Grown by
Chemical Vapor Deposition
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Ashkan Behnam, Austin S. Lyons, Myung-Ho Bae, Edmond K. Chow, Sharnali Islam, Christopher M. Neumann, Eric Pop
We study graphene nanoribbon (GNR) interconnects obtained from graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). We report low- and high-field electrical measurements over a wide temperature range, from 1.7 to 900 K. Room temperature mobilities range from 100 to 500 cm2/V/s, comparable to GNRs from exfoliated graphene, suggesting that bulk defects or grain boundaries play little role in devices smaller than the CVD graphene crystallite size. At high-field, peak current densities are limited by Joule heating, but a small amount of thermal engineering allows us to reach ~2 x 10^9 A/cm2, the highest reported for nanoscale CVD graphene interconnects. At temperatures below ~5 K, short GNRs act as quantum dots with dimensions comparable to their lengths, highlighting the role of metal contacts in limiting transport. Our study illustrates opportunities for CVD-grown GNRs, while revealing variability and contacts as remaining future challenges.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0148

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