The origin of wrinkles on transferred graphene

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 996-1004

  Liu, Nan ^a   Pan, Zhonghuai ^a   Fu, Lei ^a   Zhang, Chaohua ^a   Dai, Boya ^a   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; Graphene; surface topography; transfer; wrinkle

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053452430     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0156-3     Document Type: Article

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