Dip-pen nanolithography of electrical contacts to single graphene flakes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6409-6416

  Wang, Wechung Maria ^a   Stander, Nimrod ^b   Stoltenberg, Randall M ^b   Goldhaber Gordon, David ^b   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dip pen nanolithography; Gold electrode; Grapheme; Nanofabrication; Patterning; Scanning probe lithography

Indexed keywords

DIP-PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY; GOLD ELECTRODE; GRAPHEME; NANOFABRICATION; PATTERNING; SCANNING PROBE LITHOGRAPHY;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GOLD; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBES;

NANOLITHOGRAPHY;

EID: 78649531480     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101324x     Document Type: Article

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