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    Engineering Edge States of Graphene Nanoribbons for Narrow-Band Photoluminescence
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    • Chuanxu Ma
      Chuanxu Ma
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
      Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
      Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-5917
    • Zhongcan Xiao
      Zhongcan Xiao
      Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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    • Alexander A. Puretzky
      Alexander A. Puretzky
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9996-4429
    • Hao Wang
      Hao Wang
      Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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    • Ali Mohsin
      Ali Mohsin
      Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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    • Jingsong Huang
      Jingsong Huang
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
      Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8993-2506
    • Liangbo Liang
      Liangbo Liang
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Yingdong Luo
      Yingdong Luo
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Benjamin J. Lawrie
      Benjamin J. Lawrie
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Gong Gu
      Gong Gu
      Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3888-1427
    • Wenchang Lu
      Wenchang Lu
      Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
      Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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    • Kunlun Hong
      Kunlun Hong
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2852-5111
    • Jerzy Bernholc
      Jerzy Bernholc
      Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
      Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-8851
    • An-Ping Li*
      An-Ping Li
      Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
      Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
      *Email: [email protected]
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    Solid-state narrow-band light emitters are on-demand for quantum optoelectronics. Current approaches based on defect engineering in low-dimensional materials usually introduce a broad range of emission centers. Here, we report narrow-band light emission from covalent heterostructures fused to the edges of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) by controllable on-surface reactions from molecular precursors. Two types of heterojunction (HJ) states are realized by sequentially synthesizing GNRs and graphene nanodots (GNDs) and then coupling them together. HJs between armchair GNDs and armchair edges of the GNR are coherent and give rise to narrow-band photoluminescence. In contrast, HJs between the armchair GNDs and the zigzag ends of GNRs are defective and give rise to nonradiative states near the Fermi level. At low temperatures, sharp photoluminescence emissions with peak energy range from 2.03 to 2.08 eV and line widths of 2–5 meV are observed. The radiative HJ states are uniform, and the optical transition energy is controlled by the band gaps of GNRs and GNDs. As these HJs can be synthesized in a large quantity with atomic precision, this finding highlights a route to programmable and deterministic creation of quantum light emitters.

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    • On-surface synthesis of the BN-GNDs, additional STM images of the pristine GNRs and GNR–GND HJs, simulated STM image and model structures of the GNR–GND HJs, additional dI/dV curves and mapping of the GNR–GND HJs, Raman spectra of the pristine 7-aGNR sample before and after transfer, room-temperature PL spectra from the pristine GNRs and the GNR–GND HJs, PL spectra on the pristine BN-GND sample, assignment of the Raman peaks in PL spectra, more representative PL curves on the GNR–GND HJ sample acquired at 4 K (PDF)

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