Atomic structure of interconnected few-layer graphene domains

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6610-6618

  Robertson, Alex W ^a   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^b   Wu, Yimin A ^a   Schäffel, Franziska ^a   Rellinghaus, Bernd ^b   Büchner, Bernd ^b   Rümmeli, Mark H ^b,c   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

chemical vapor deposition; CVD. aberration corrected TEM; grain boundary; graphene

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ATOMIC BONDING; BONDED INTERFACE; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CROSS SECTION; DEFOCUS; EDGE CONTRAST; GRAPHENE SHEETS; HRTEM IMAGES; MULTI SLICES; TEM IMAGES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATOMS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STACKING FAULTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 80052058593     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202051g     Document Type: Article

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