Raman characterization of ABA- and ABC-stacked trilayer graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8760-8768

  Cong, Chunxiao ^a   Yu, Ting ^a,b   Sato, Kentaro ^c   Shang, Jingzhi ^a   Saito, Riichiro ^c   Dresselhaus, Gene F ^d   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^e,f  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

double resonance Raman spectroscopy; electron phonon interaction; graphene; Raman scattering; stacking order

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION MODES; DOUBLE RESONANCE; G-MODES; RAMAN CHARACTERIZATION; RAMAN FREQUENCIES; RAMAN MODES; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; STACKING ORDER; TRILAYERS; WAVE VECTOR;

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 81855177305     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203472f     Document Type: Article

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