Wave-function mapping of graphene quantum dots with soft confinement

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Subramaniam, D ^a   Libisch, F ^b   Li, Y ^a   Pauly, C ^a   Geringer, V ^a   Reiter, R ^b   Mashoff, T ^a   Liebmann, M ^a   Burgdorfer J ^b   Busse, C ^c   Michely, T ^c   Mazzarello, R ^a   Pratzer, M ^a   Morgenstern, M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE LAYERS; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; IR(111); K POINTS; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; LOW TEMPERATURES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE RESONANCE; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; IRIDIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84862907965     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.046801     Document Type: Article

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