Quantum confined electronic states in atomically well-defined graphene nanostructures

Despite the enormous interest in the properties of graphene and the potential of graphene nanostructures in electronic applications, the study of quantum-confined states in atomically well-defined graphene nanostructures remains an experimental challenge. Here, we study graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with well-defined edges in the zigzag direction, grown by chemical vapor deposition on an Ir(111) substrate by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. We measure the atomic structure and local density of states of individual GQDs as a function of their size and shape in the range from a couple of nanometers up to ca. 20 nm. The results can be quantitatively modeled by a relativistic wave equation and atomistic tight-binding calculations. The observed states are analogous to the solutions of the textbook “particle-in-a-box” problem applied to relativistic massless fermions.

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graphene, quantum dot, scanning tunneling microscopy

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236803

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Hämäläinen, S, Sun, Z, Boneschanscher, M P, Uppstu, C, Ijäs, M, Harju, A, Vanmaekelbergh, D & Liljeroth, P 2011, 'Quantum confined electronic states in atomically well-defined graphene nanostructures', Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, no. 23, 236803, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.236803

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