Zone-selective photoelectronic measurements of the local bonding and electronic dynamics associated with the monolayer skin and point defects of graphite

RSC Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2377-2383

  Sun, Chang Q ^a,b   Nie, Yanguang ^a   Pan, Jisheng ^c   Zhang, Xi ^a   Ma, S Z ^a   Wang, Yan ^d   Zheng, Weitao ^e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; ATOMIC VACANCIES; BINDING ENERGY SHIFTS; BONDING ELECTRONS; C-C BONDS; CARBON ATOMS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC DYNAMICS; ENERGY INCREASE; GRAPHITE SURFACES; LOCAL BONDING; PHOTO-ELECTRON EMISSION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; ZIGZAG EDGES;

ATOMS; BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DYNAMICS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POINT DEFECTS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE DEFECTS; VACANCIES;

DANGLING BONDS;

EID: 84859128197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ra00512c     Document Type: Article

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