Engineering Robust Metallic Zero-Mode States in Olympicene Graphene Nanoribbons

McCurdy, Ryan D.; Delgado, Aidan; Jiang, Jingwei; Zhu, Junmian; Wen, Ethan Chi Ho; Blackwell, Raymond E.; Veber, Gregory C.; Wang, Shenkai; Louie, Steven G.; Fischer, Felix R.

doi:10.1021/jacs.3c01576

Title: Engineering Robust Metallic Zero-Mode States in Olympicene Graphene Nanoribbons

Journal Article · Mon Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c01576· OSTI ID:1989069

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Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States, Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States, Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

Metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) represent a critical component in the toolbox of low-dimensional functional materials technology serving as 1D interconnects capable of both electronic and quantum information transport. The structural constraints imposed by on-surface bottom-up GNR synthesis protocols along with the limited control over orientation and sequence of asymmetric monomer building blocks during the radical step-growth polymerization have plagued the design and assembly of metallic GNRs. Here, we report the regioregular synthesis of GNRs hosting robust metallic states by embedding a symmetric zero-mode (ZM) superlattice along the backbone of a GNR. Tight-binding electronic structure models predict a strong nearest-neighbor electron hopping interaction between adjacent ZM states, resulting in a dispersive metallic band. First-principles density functional theory-local density approximation calculations confirm this prediction, and the robust, metallic ZM band of olympicene GNRs is experimentally corroborated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF); National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05-CH11231; SC0023105; AC02-05CH11231; N00014-19-1-2503; N00014-20-1-2824; CHE-2203911; DMR-1926004; S10OD024998

OSTI ID:: 1989069

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1991173

Journal Information:: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 145 Journal Issue: 28; ISSN 0002-7863

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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