Determination of the bending rigidity of graphene via electrostatic actuation of buckled membranes

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3526-3531

  Lindahl, Niklas ^a   Midtvedt, Daniel ^b   Svensson, Johannes ^c   Nerushev, Oleg A ^d   Lindvall, Niclas ^b   Isacsson, Andreas ^b   Campbell, Eleanor E B ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

bending rigidity; buckled membranes; Few layer grapheme

Indexed keywords

AFM; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; BENDING RIGIDITY; BI-LAYER; BUCKLED MEMBRANES; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATION; ELECTROSTATIC PRESSURE; FEW-LAYER GRAPHEME; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; RIPPLE FORMATION; SNAP-THROUGH; SUSPENDED MEMBRANES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MEMBRANES; MONOLAYERS; RIGIDITY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84863857388     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301080v     Document Type: Article

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