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Raman Fingerprints of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons.


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Authors

Verzhbitskiy, Ivan A 
Corato, Marzio De 
Ruini, Alice 
Molinari, Elisa 
Narita, Akimitsu 

Abstract

Bottom-up approaches allow the production of ultranarrow and atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with electronic and optical properties controlled by the specific atomic structure. Combining Raman spectroscopy and ab initio simulations, we show that GNR width, edge geometry, and functional groups all influence their Raman spectra. The low-energy spectral region below 1000 cm(-1) is particularly sensitive to edge morphology and functionalization, while the D peak dispersion can be used to uniquely fingerprint the presence of GNRs and differentiates them from other sp(2) carbon nanostructures.

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Keywords

Graphene, Raman spectroscopy, nanoribbons

Journal Title

Nano Lett

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Journal ISSN

1530-6984
1530-6992

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Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K017144/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K01711X/1)
European Commission (604391)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N010345/1)
We acknowledge funding from: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the framework of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, endowed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research of Germany; the ESF project GOSPEL (Ref. No. 09-EuroGRAPHENE-FP-001); the European Research Council (grant NOC-2D, NANOGRAPH, and Hetero2D); the Italian Ministry of Research through the national projects PRIN-GRAF (Grant No. 20105ZZTSE) and FIRB-FLASHit (Grant No. RBFR12SWOJ); the DFG Priority Program SPP 1459; the Graphene Flagship (Ref. No. CNECT-ICT-604391); the EU project MoQuaS; EPSRC Grants (EP/K01711X/1, EP/K017144/1); the EU grant GENIUS; a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Computer time was granted by PRACE at the CINECA Supercomputing Center (Grant No. PRA06 1348), and by the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract number DE-SC0012704.