Customizing the Reduction of Individual Graphene Oxide Flakes for Precise Work Function Tuning with meV Precision

Yuefeng Huang, Dengke Ma, Patrick Turner, Gavin Donnelly, Joel Katzen, William Hendren, Marty Gregg, Robert Bowman, Lifa Zhang, Gang Zhang, Fumin Huang

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Abstract

Being able to precisely control the reduction of two-dimensional graphene oxide films will open exciting opportunities for tailor-making the functionality of nanodevices with on-demand properties. Here we report meticulously controlled reduction of individual graphene oxide flakes ranging from single to seven layers through controlled laser irradiation. It is found that the reduction can be customized in such a precise way that the film thickness can be accurately thinned with sub-nanometer resolution, facilitated by extraordinary temperature gradients >102 K/nm across the interlayers of graphene oxide films. Such precisely controlled reduction provides important pathways towards precision nanotechnology with custom-designed electrical, thermal, optical and chemical properties. We demonstrate that this can be exploited to finely tune the work function of graphene oxide films with unprecedented precision of only a few milli electronvolts.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2738-2744
Number of pages7
JournalNanoscale Advances
Volume2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Jun 2020

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