Imaging coherent transport in graphene (part II): Probing weak localization

Nanotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 27, 2010, Pages

  Berezovsky, Jesse ^a   Westervelt, Robert M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT TRANSPORTS; ELECTRON COHERENCE; ELECTRON INTERFERENCE; ELECTRON WAVE; ELECTRON WAVELENGTHS; FIXED CHARGE DENSITY; GRAPHENE DEVICES; MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE; UNIVERSAL CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS; WEAK LOCALIZATION;

ELECTRONS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; PROBES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 77953986742     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/27/274014     Document Type: Article

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