Tailoring the atomic structure of graphene nanoribbons by scanning tunnelling microscope lithography

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 397-401

  Tapasztó, Levente ^a   Dobrik, Gergely ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^b   Biró, László P ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANORIBBONS; NANOTUBES; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; YARN;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FUNCTIONAL CIRCUITS; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; NANOSCALE ELECTRONICS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; SPECTROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS;

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEVICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE LITHOGRAPHY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 46749150363     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.149     Document Type: Article

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