Transparent ultrathin conducting carbon films

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 256, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 6186-6190

  Schreiber, Martin ^a   Lutz, Tarek ^a   Keeley, Gareth P ^a   Kumar, Shishir ^a   Boese, Markus ^a   Krishnamurthy, Satheesh ^a   Duesberg, Georg S ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Conductive carbon films; Electrochemical electrodes; Glassy carbon; Graphene; Pyrolysis; Transparent films

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FILMS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS; GLASSY CARBON; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PYROLYSIS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES; ULTRATHIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMICALLY SMOOTH SURFACE; CONDUCTIVE CARBON; FOUR-POINT PROBE MEASUREMENTS; HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; LAYER CHARACTERIZATION; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS; TRANSPARENT FILMS;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

EID: 77953155890     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.03.138     Document Type: Article

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