Moiré superstructures of graphene on faceted nickel islands

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6509-6514

  Murata, Yuya ^a   Petrova, Vania ^b   Kappes, Branden B ^c   Ebnonnasir, Abbas ^c   Petrov, Ivan ^b   Xie, Ya Hong ^a   Ciobanu, Cristian V ^c   Kodambaka, Suneel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Electronic structure; Grapheme; Nickel; Scanning tunneling microscopy spectroscopy; Three dimensional island

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; GRAPHEME; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; NI SUBSTRATES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ISLANDS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; NICKEL; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 78649581869     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102446y     Document Type: Article

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