Domain structure and boundary in single-layer graphene grown on Cu(111) and Cu(100) films

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-226

  Ogawa, Yui ^a   Hu, Baoshan ^a,b   Orofeo, Carlo M ^a   Tsuji, Masaharu ^a   Ikeda, Ken Ichi ^a   Mizuno, Seigi ^a   Hibino, Hiroki ^c   Ago, Hiroki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT PRESSURES; CU(1 0 0); CU(1 1 1); DOMAIN BOUNDARY; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HETEROEPITAXIAL; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MULTIDOMAIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN D-BAND; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAPHENE;

COPPER;

EID: 84856021688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2015555     Document Type: Article

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