Volume 29, Issue 16
Communication

C3N—A 2D Crystalline, Hole‐Free, Tunable‐Narrow‐Bandgap Semiconductor with Ferromagnetic Properties

Siwei Yang

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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Wei Li

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China

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Caichao Ye

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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Gang Wang

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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He Tian

Center of Electron Microscopy and State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 P. R. China

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Chong Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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Peng He

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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Guqiao Ding

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: gqding@mail.sim.ac.cn

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

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Xiaoming Xie

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: xmxie@mail.sim.ac.cn

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, 200031 P. R. China

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Yang Liu

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China

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Yeshayahu Lifshitz

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003 Israel

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Shuit‐Tong Lee

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: apannale@suda.edu.cn

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China

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Zhenhui Kang

Corresponding Author

E-mail address: zhkang@suda.edu.cn

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China

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Mianheng Jiang

State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 865 Changning Road, Shanghai, 200050 P. R. China

School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University, Shanghai, 200031 P. R. China

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First published: 27 February 2017
Citations: 130

Abstract

Graphene has initiated intensive research efforts on 2D crystalline materials due to its extraordinary set of properties and the resulting host of possible applications. Here the authors report on the controllable large‐scale synthesis of C3N, a 2D crystalline, hole‐free extension of graphene, its structural characterization, and some of its unique properties. C3N is fabricated by polymerization of 2,3‐diaminophenazine. It consists of a 2D honeycomb lattice with a homogeneous distribution of nitrogen atoms, where both N and C atoms show a D6h‐symmetry. C3N is a semiconductor with an indirect bandgap of 0.39 eV that can be tuned to cover the entire visible range by fabrication of quantum dots with different diameters. Back‐gated field‐effect transistors made of single‐layer C3N display an on–off current ratio reaching 5.5 × 1010. Surprisingly, C3N exhibits a ferromagnetic order at low temperatures (<96 K) when doped with hydrogen. This new member of the graphene family opens the door for both fundamental basic research and possible future applications.

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