All-optical high-resolution nanopatterning and 3D suspending of graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5141-5150

  Stöhr, Rainer J ^a   Kolesov, Roman ^a   Xia, Kangwei ^a   Wrachtrup, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

freely suspended graphene; graphene; graphene nanoribbon; laser etching; laser lithography

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON HOLE PLASMA; FREELY SUSPENDED GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; LASER BEAM PROFILE; LASER ETCHING; LASER LITHOGRAPHY; LASER-BASED TECHNIQUES; LOCAL HEATING; NANOPATTERNING; OUT-OF-PLANE ANISOTROPY; PHASE-SHIFTING; UPCONVERSION FLUORESCENCE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUORESCENCE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 79959803214     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201226f     Document Type: Article

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