Surface-Dependent Phonon Dynamics in 9-Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Arrays
Abstract
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have electronic properties tunable through their width and edge structure, making them promising building blocks for nanoscale electronics and optoelectronics. Their integration into devices also requires understanding how the supporting surface and neighbouring ribbons affect their vibrations. Here, we use temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy to compare five configurations of 9-armchair GNR arrays differing in substrate, alignment and coverage. Transferring the same unaligned film from Au to a Raman-optimised Al2O3-coated support reduces the measured D- and G-mode redshift rates by about 80\%. This reduction is consistent with a substantial thermoelastic contribution. The fitted strain and anharmonic contributions depend on the assumed thermal expansion and strain transfer. Compared with the low-coverage array, the dense aligned Au array has higher extrapolated reference frequencies (ω0). On first heating, its G-mode linewidth decreases and then increases, forming an unusual intermediate-temperature minimum. The D-mode linewidth shows a similar, less pronounced variation. These findings establish substrate choice and array arrangement as routes to engineer nanoribbon vibrations, extending control beyond the atomic structure defined during synthesis.
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BibTeX
@misc{alvarez2026surfacedependent,
title = {{Surface-Dependent Phonon Dynamics in 9-Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Arrays}},
author = {Ángel Labordet Álvarez and Gabriela Borin Barin and Michel Calame and Mirjana Dimitrievska},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.39278},
eprint = {2609.39278},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39278},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Surface-Dependent Phonon Dynamics in 9-Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Arrays
AU - Ángel Labordet Álvarez
AU - Gabriela Borin Barin
AU - Michel Calame
AU - Mirjana Dimitrievska
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.39278
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39278
AB - Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have electronic properties tunable through their width and edge structure, making them promising building blocks for nanoscale electronics and optoelectronics. Their integration into devices also requires understanding how the supporting surface and neighbouring ribbons affect their vibrations. Here, we use temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy to compare five configurations of 9-armchair GNR arrays differing in substrate, alignment and coverage. Transferring the same unaligned film from Au to a Raman-optimised Al_2O_3-coated support reduces the measured D- and G-mode redshift rates by about 80\%. This reduction is consistent with a substantial thermoelastic contribution. The fitted strain and anharmonic contributions depend on the assumed thermal expansion and strain transfer. Compared with the low-coverage array, the dense aligned Au array has higher extrapolated reference frequencies (ω_0). On first heating, its G-mode linewidth decreases and then increases, forming an unusual intermediate-temperature minimum. The D-mode linewidth shows a similar, less pronounced variation. These findings establish substrate choice and array arrangement as routes to engineer nanoribbon vibrations, extending control beyond the atomic structure defined during synthesis.
ER -