Growth from below: Graphene bilayers on Ir(111)

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2298-2306

  Nie, Shu ^a   Walter, Andrew L ^b,c   Bartelt, Norman C ^a   Starodub, Elena ^a   Bostwick, Aaron ^b   Rotenberg, Eli ^b   McCarty, Kevin F ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy; bilayer graphene; Ir(111); low energy electron diffraction; low energy electron microscopy; Ru(0001); work function

Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; BI-LAYER; IR(111); LOW ENERGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; RU(0001);

DEFECTS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; IRIDIUM; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NUCLEATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOEMISSION; WORK FUNCTION;

SUBSTRATES;

GRAPHITE; IRIDIUM; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; IRIDIUM; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952912426     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn103582g     Document Type: Article

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