Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 82, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.115410
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2006CB605105, 2006CB0L0601]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10674077]
- KOSEF-NSFC-JSPS
- MEST (Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites)
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We present a first-principles study of the migration and recombination of edge defects (carbon adatom and/or vacancy) and their influence on electrical conductance in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs). It is found that at room temperature, the adatom is quite mobile while the vacancy is almost immobile along the edge of ZGNRs. The recombination of an adatom-vacancy pair leads to a pentagon-heptagon ring defect structure having a lower energy than the perfect edge, implying that such an edge defect can be formed spontaneously. This edge defect can suppresses the conductance of ZGNRs drastically, which provides some useful hints for understanding the observed semiconducting behavior of the fabricated narrow GNRs.
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