Free-standing graphene at atomic resolution

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 676-681

  Gass, Mhairi H ^a   Bangert, Ursel ^b   Bleloch, Andrew L ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Nair, Rahul R ^b   Geim, A K ^b  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; POINT DEFECTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT;

ATOMIC PLANES; ATOMIC RESOLUTION; ATOMIC-RESOLUTION IMAGING; BALLISTIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; RESEARCH INTERESTS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS;

GRAPHENE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57349130642     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.280     Document Type: Article

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