Large scale growth and characterization of atomic hexagonal boron nitride layers

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3209-3215

  Song, Li ^a   Ci, Lijie ^a   Lu, Hao ^a   Sorokin, Pavel B ^a   Jin, Chuanhong ^b   Ni, Jie ^a   Kvashnin, Alexander G ^c   Kvashnin, Dmitry G ^c   Lou, Jun ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boron nitride; computation; electrical microscopy; optical and mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER; BN FILMS; COMPUTATION; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); LAYERED MATERIAL; OPTICAL ENERGY BAND GAP; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ATOMS; BORON; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MONOLAYERS; NANOINDENTATION; NITRIDES; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 77955566830     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1022139     Document Type: Article

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