Structure and electronic transport in graphene wrinkles

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3431-3436

  Zhu, Wenjuan ^a   Low, Tony ^a   Perebeinos, Vasili ^a   Bol, Ageeth A ^a   Zhu, Yu ^a   Yan, Hugen ^a   Tersoff, Jerry ^a   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic transport; fold; grapheme; ripples; wrinkle

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FOLD; GRAPHEME; RIPPLES; WRINKLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTUBES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SUBSTRATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84863837785     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300563h     Document Type: Article

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