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Phys. Rev. B 78, 161409(R) (2008) [4 pages]

Electrical observation of subband formation in graphene nanoribbons

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Yu-Ming Lin*, Vasili Perebeinos, Zhihong Chen, and Phaedon Avouris
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA

Received 30 April 2008; revised 3 October 2008; published 30 October 2008

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We report the experimental observation of subband formation in graphene nanoribbons, where conductance becomes quantized due to the lateral quantum confinement. We show that this quantization in graphene nanoribbons can be observed at temperatures as high as 80 K and channel lengths as long as 1.7 μm. The observed quantization is in agreement with that predicted by theoretical calculations.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.161409
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.161409
PACS:
73.23.−b, 73.63.−b

*yming@us.ibm.com