A pathway between Bernal and rhombohedral stacked graphene layers with scanning tunneling microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Xu, P ^a   Yang, Yurong ^a,b   Qi, D ^a   Barber, S D ^a   Ackerman, M L ^a   Schoelz, J K ^a   Bothwell, T B ^a   Barraza Lopez, Salvador ^a   Bellaiche, L ^a   Thibado, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HIGH-ENERGY BARRIERS; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; LOW ENERGIES; ORBITALS; REAL-SPACE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; STM IMAGES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAPHENE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ENERGY BARRIERS;

EID: 84861810104     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4716475     Document Type: Article

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