Activation energy paths for graphene nucleation and growth on Cu

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3614-3623

  Kim, Hokwon ^a   Mattevi, Cecilia ^a   Calvo, M Reyes ^b   Oberg, Jenny C ^b   Artiglia, Luca ^c   Agnoli, Stefano ^c   Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F ^b   Chhowalla, Manish ^d   Saiz, Eduardo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

2D nanomaterial; chemical vapor deposition; graphene; large area optoelectronics; nucleation and growth; surface catalysis

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATIONS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DESORPTION RATE; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NANOMATERIAL; NUCLEATION ACTIVATION ENERGY; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH KINETICS; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; SURFACE CATALYSIS; WAFER-SCALE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADATOMS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DESORPTION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NUCLEATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VAPORS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84860356363     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3008965     Document Type: Article

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