Hot electron transport in suspended multilayer graphene

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Sungbae ^a   Wijesinghe, Nelka ^a   Diaz Pinto, Carlos ^a   Peng, Haibing ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

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EID: 77956694163     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.045411     Document Type: Article

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