Disorder and defect healing in graphene on Ni(111)

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 136-139

  Jacobson, Peter ^a,b   Stöger, Bernhard ^b   Garhofer, Andreas ^b   Parkinson, Gareth S ^b   Schmid, Michael ^b   Caudillo, Roman ^c   Mittendorfer, Florian ^b   Redinger, Josef ^b   Diebold, Ulrike ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECT CONCENTRATIONS; DEFECT HEALING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DISORDERED DOMAINS; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; LOW TEMPERATURES; METALLIC SUPPORT; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SMALL CLUSTERS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

DEFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FILM GROWTH; GROWTH TEMPERATURE; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84855453636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2015007     Document Type: Article

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