Giant phonon-induced conductance in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of gate-tunable graphene

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 627-630

  Zhang, Yuanbo ^a   Brar, Victor W ^a,b   Wang, Feng ^a   Girit, Caglar ^a,b   Yayon, Yossi ^a   Panlasigui, Melissa ^a   Zettl, Alex ^a,b   Crommie, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACK GATE ELECTRODES; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; DENSITY DEPENDENT; DIRAC FERMIONS; GRAPHITIC LAYERS; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; SCANNING TUNNELLING SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 48949087342     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1022     Document Type: Article

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