Substrate-induced bandgap opening in epitaxial graphene

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 770-775

  Zhou, S Y ^a,b   Gweon, G H ^a,f   Fedorov, A V ^b   First, P N ^c   De Heer, W A ^d   Lee, D H ^a   Guinea, F ^d   Castro Neto, A H ^e   Lanzara, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e Boston University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY GAP; EPITAXIAL FILMS; SILICON CARBIDE; SUBSTRATES;

GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE-SUBSTRATE INTERACTION; SUBLATTICE SYMMETRY;

CARBON;

EID: 34848838046     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2003     Document Type: Article

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