Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 4047-4051Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl200803q
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Graphene; aryl group grafting; functonalization; band gap engineering; variable range hopping
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- ONR/DMEA [H94003-10-2-1003]
- NSF [CAREER DMR/0748910]
- ONR [N00014-09-1-0724]
- NSF-MRSEC [DMR-0820382]
- FENA Focus Center
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Chemical functionalization is a promising route to band gap engineering of graphene. We chemically grafted nitrophenyl groups onto exfoliated single-layer graphene sheets in the form of substrate-supported or free-standing films. Our transport measurements demonstrate that nonsuspended functionalized graphene behaves as a granular metal, with variable range hopping transport and a mobility gap similar to 0.1 eV at low temperature. For suspended graphene that allows functionaliza-tion on both surfaces, we demonstrate tuning of its electronic properties from a granular metal to a semiconductor in which transport occurs via thermal activation over a transport gap similar to 80 meV from 4 to 300 K. This noninvasive and scalable functionalization technique paves the way for CMOS-compatible band gap engineering of graphene electronic devices.
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