Controlled ripple texturing of suspended graphene and ultrathin graphite membranes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 562-566

  Bao, Wenzhong ^a   Miao, Feng ^a   Chen, Zhen ^b   Zhang, Hang ^a   Jang, Wanyoung ^b   Dames, Chris ^b   Lau, Chun Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE DEVICES; GRAPHITE; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION; STRAIN; THERMAL ENGINEERING; THERMAL EXPANSION;

BAND GAP ENGINEERING; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ELASTIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE; INTRINSIC FEATURES; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NEGATIVE THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; SUSPENDED GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 70249094929     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.191     Document Type: Article

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