Signature of electronic excitations in the Raman spectrum of graphene

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Kashuba, Oleksiy ^a   Fal'Ko, Vladimir I ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77952358226     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.241404     Document Type: Article

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