Size-selected epitaxial nanoislands underneath graphene moiré on Rh(111)

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 151-158

  Sicot, Muriel ^a   Leicht, Philipp ^a   Zusan, Andreas ^a   Bouvron, Samuel ^a   Zander, Ole ^a   Weser, Martin ^b   Dedkov, Yuriy S ^b,c   Horn, Karsten ^b   Fonin, Mikhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c SPECS SURFACE NANO ANALYSIS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ferromagnet; grapheme; intercalation; moir ; photoemission spectroscopy; rhodium; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

BONDING STRENGTH; DEFECT HEALING; DEPOSITED METAL; DISCRETE VALUES; FERROMAGNETS; GRAPHEME; GRAPHENE LATTICES; IN-SITU SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPIES; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOMAGNETISMS; SIDE LENGTH; SIZE AND SHAPE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

DEFECTS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; INTERCALATION; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RHODIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; RHODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; RHODIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856134761     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203169j     Document Type: Article

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