{"id":189830,"date":"2024-05-21T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-method-may-facilitate-the-use-of-graphene-nanoribbons-in-nanoelectronics"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:22:45","slug":"new-method-may-facilitate-the-use-of-graphene-nanoribbons-in-nanoelectronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-method-may-facilitate-the-use-of-graphene-nanoribbons-in-nanoelectronics","title":{"rendered":"New method may facilitate the use of graphene nanoribbons in nanoelectronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-method-may-facilitate-the-use-of-graphene-nanoribbons-in-nanoelectronics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, if long and thin strips of graphene (termed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene+nanoribbons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene nanoribbons<\/a>) are cut out of a wide graphene sheet, the quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/charge+carriers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">charge carriers<\/a> become confined within the narrow dimension, which makes them semi-conducting and enables their use in quantum switching devices. As of today, there are a number of barriers to using graphene nanoribbons in devices, among them is the challenge of reproducibly growing narrow and long sheets that are isolated from the environment.<\/p>\n<p>In this new study, the researchers were able to develop a method to catalytically grow narrow, long, and reproducible graphene nanoribbons directly within insulating hexagonal boron-nitride stacks, as well as demonstrate peak performance in quantum switching devices based on the newly-grown ribbons. The unique growth mechanism was revealed using advanced molecular dynamics simulation tools that were developed and implemented by the Israeli teams.<\/p>\n<p>These calculations showed that ultra-low friction in certain growth directions within the boron-nitride crystal dictates the reproducibility of the structure of the ribbon, allowing it to grow to unprecedented lengths directly within a clean and isolated environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, if long and thin strips of graphene (termed graphene nanoribbons) are cut out of a wide graphene sheet, the quantum charge carriers become confined within the narrow dimension, which makes them semi-conducting and enables their use in quantum switching devices. As of today, there are a number of barriers to using graphene nanoribbons in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189830","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}