Tip-enhanced raman spectroscopy and mapping of graphene sheets

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 371-381

  Ghislandi, Marcos ^a,b   Hoffmann, Günter G ^a   Tkalya, Evgeniy ^a,b   Xue, Lijing ^a,b   De With, Gijsbertus ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Graphene; tip enhanced mapping; tip enhanced Raman

Indexed keywords

CARBON VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; LOCAL DEFECTS; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; MICRO-MECHANICAL; NANOMETER RESOLUTIONS; RAMAN BANDS; RAMAN SIGNAL; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; THIN GLASS SUBSTRATES; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN; TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE; MAPPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84862177172     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704928.2012.666773     Document Type: Review

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