Engineering Robust Metallic Zero-Mode States in Olympicene Graphene Nanoribbons

RD McCurdy, A Delgado, J Jiang, J Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
RD McCurdy, A Delgado, J Jiang, J Zhu, ECH Wen, RE Blackwell, GC Veber, S Wang
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023ACS Publications
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 …
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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