Imaging coherent transport in graphene (part I): Mapping universal conductance fluctuations

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 27, 2010, Pages

  Berezovsky, J ^a   Borunda, M F ^b   Heller, E J ^b   Westervelt, R M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT TRANSPORTS; CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATION; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; ELECTRON WAVE; FERMI WAVELENGTH; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GRAPHENE DEVICES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; LENGTH SCALE; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NEW PHYSICS; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE; SMALL SIZE; UNIVERSAL CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; PROBES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 77953973447     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/27/274013     Document Type: Article

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