Simple approach for high-contrast optical imaging and characterization of graphene-based sheets

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3569-3575

  Jung, Inhwa ^a   Pelton, Matthew ^b   Piner, Richard ^a   Dikin, Dmitriy A ^a   Stankovich, Sasha ^a   Watcharotone, Supinda ^a   Hausner, Martina ^c   Ruoff, Rodney S ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LAYERS; GRAPHENE OXIDE; OPTICAL IMAGING;

CARBON; CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 37849044972     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0714177     Document Type: Article

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