{"id":172526,"date":"2023-09-21T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/making-contact-researchers-wire-up-individual-graphene-nanoribbons"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:26:52","slug":"making-contact-researchers-wire-up-individual-graphene-nanoribbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/making-contact-researchers-wire-up-individual-graphene-nanoribbons","title":{"rendered":"Making contact: Researchers wire up individual graphene nanoribbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-contact-researchers-wire-up-individual-graphene-nanoribbons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a method of \u201cwiring up\u201d graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), a class of one-dimensional materials that are of interest in the scaling of microelectronic devices. Using a direct-write scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) based process, the nanometer-scale metal contacts were fabricated on individual GNRs and could control the electronic character of the GNRs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say that this is the first demonstration of making metal contacts to specific GNRs with certainty and that those contacts induce device functionality needed for transistor function.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c02794\">results of this research<\/a>, led by electrical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer engineering<\/a> (ECE) professor Joseph Lyding, along with ECE graduate student Pin-Chiao Huang and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and engineering graduate student Hongye Sun, were recently published in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a method of \u201cwiring up\u201d graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), a class of one-dimensional materials that are of interest in the scaling of microelectronic devices. Using a direct-write scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) based process, the nanometer-scale metal contacts were fabricated on individual GNRs and could control the electronic character of the GNRs. The researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}